So ur partition table is like this
/dev/hda1 --> ur C /dev/hda2 --> extended partition info table /dev/hda5 --> ur D Now, when u want to partion and allocate something in /dev/hda3 or /devhda4, u cant do that because all of them are allocated for extended partition. Remember, extended partion datastructure chain works like self contracting or expanding stack while, primary partition table works like "as is where is". To get rid of this problem, theoritically do as follows, first delete ur extended partion /dev/hda5. Then delete primary partition containing extended partition info table (possibly /dev/hda2). I am assuming that all ur win98 is in /dev/hda1. Now allocate /dev/hda2 as /boot, /dev/hda3 as /root and /dev/hda4 as swap. Also I will recommend u to use fdisk from command line to make all these things. I love to have all the partitions as primary, but u can also do something else ;-) Good luck Archan On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Babu wrote: > 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> -- He's the kind of guy, that, well, if you were ever in a jam he'd be there... with two slices of bread and some chunky peanut butter. _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
