Hey everybody,
After an awesome quake 3 LAN party this weekend :), one of my friends
decided he wanted to try linux on his system. I excitedly agreed to
help him install Red Hat 6.1. To my surprise and disappointment, I
couldn't get it installed to save my life. He has a new system with
a 27 GIG IDE hard drive. When he set the system up, he formatted a
~24 GIG Windows partion, and left 3 GIG as unpartioned space. For
some strange reason, the redhat installer simply wouldn't allow me to
create a / partion on that space, it kept saying there wasn't enough
room.
What I was doing, was creating a 128 meg swap partion, which worked
fine. Then I would create a 1 meg / partion and select the "Grow to
fill disk" checkbox. That didn't work. So I typed in the the size
of the partion based on the free space printed in the summary section.
Nix on that too. So I tried creating a 100 meg / partion ... nope.
Always the same error. I could create any other partion without a
problem, e.g. I created a /home and set it to "Grow to fill disk"
and it worked fine. I just couldn't create the slash partion.
The only thing I can guess at, is that slash needs to be hda1
(although I'd swear I've had slash as hda5 before) or possibly the
slash partion needs to be near the beginning of the disk for some
ancient bios reason.
So does anybody know what the problem might be? and if there is a
workaround?
-Matt
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Matthew W. Herbert x75764
Spectrum Advanced Applications
http://www.aprisma.com/
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