This should be posted on -help, moving it there.
On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 02:21:52PM -0700, Rahul Premraj wrote:
> I have a 4.3 GB HDD with a primary partition (2.5 GB), an extended DOS
> partition of 500MB which has one single logical
> DOS partition. The rest (1 GB) has been left for Linux. I have installed
> Win 98 SE on the primary partition.
You have two primary partitions taken up - one for DOS, one for extended.
>
> I am installing Red Hat Linux on my sys from a PC Quest CD. The trouble
> I face is that when I am creating partitions for my
> Linux OS on my HDD using fdisk/disk druid provided in the CD, on making
> the 3rd partition, I get an error saying "No free
> primary partition". This is irrespective of the order in which i create
> the partitions. The trouble comes up always on the 3rd
> partition.
You can have a max of 4 primary partitions. That's why. Your options:
1. Install linux with minimum partitioning - 1 swap and 1 root.
2. Repartition the extended partition and create more partitions within
it. This may mean loss of data - so be prepared to back up.
-Arun
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