Allright guys here I am gain with what you asked me, I think previous time my question was bit cryptic and I am sorry, so here is the situations detail you asked me I am installing RHL 7.1 with P-III 128 , whoch got a IDE disk, allready got win98 intsalled with partitions of C and D and DiskDruid shows them as hda1 and hda5 now I want to partition it for Linux as it got around 3 GB free space, as one of you suggested I tryed again with swap partition and root but I get an error of Cant allocate partition as boot partition > 1024 so I think it got something with the cylinder size or something ? ok so let me try to create partition again with boot ok now I created /boot partition after deleting the unalocated /root, this time the error is <swap partition no free primary> so what can be the problem here Let me thankyou for ur first response as I was pretty happy to see lots of people reply for it thanx once again in advance --- Khanna's <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try this approach, start the installation program > once again & using fdisk > delete all the linux partitions assuming u don' t > have any data on them. > Once the changes have been written reboot and again > run the installation > process this time create the swap partition first > followed by the root > partition. > This should help u solve ur problem, let us know if > it doesn't. > Have a nice day. > With regards, > Sachin S. Khanna > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Babu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Linux India Mailing List > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 9:06 AM > Subject: [LIH] Partition Blues > > > > Hi list! > > here I am agian :) > > Got a problem with installation as when I try to > > create the partitions everything goes fine with > root > > partition and boot but when I try to create the > swap > > partition it says it cant create the partition as > not > > enough space is available but there is enough > space > > avilable. How can I get it done? > > Thanx in advance > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! > > http://greetings.yahoo.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > linux-india-help mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help > > > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-india-help mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
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