Reading between the lines, you have 4 primary partitions. Not only is 4
the limit for primary partitions on a drive, if you have any secondary
partitions, one of the primary partitions must tell where they are, and
cannot be used for anything else. I don't know disk druid, but if it
doesn't work for youm you can use fdisk or cfdisk. I hope you haven't
done anything with one of those partitions, because you need to delete
one and use it to describe the secondary partitions. If you haaave 4
primary partitions, and tell fdisk to make a new one, it will tell you:
witsend:~# fdisk
Command (m for help): n
You must delete some partition and add an extended partition first
And that is, I fear, what you must do.
Lawson
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On Fri, 14 May 1999, Ailwyn Burgess wrote:
> All
>
> I'm trying to install RH 5.2 onto a machine and I've partitioned the
6.4 GB
> disk as follows:
>
> 2GB NTFS
> 1GB FAT
> 1GB FAT
> 2GB Linux Native
>
> Disk druid is reporting 141 MB unallocated, but when I try and create a
> Linux Swap partition of 127MB (I believe this is the largest possible
size)
> it refuses to allocate it saying "not enough primary".
>
> What does this mean and how can I remedy it?
>
> Cheers
>
> Ailwyn
>
>
>
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