Dear Linux Users
I have been desparately trying to configure a 17GB IDE Hard Disk to work
with RED HAT LINUX 6.1 & Win 98. It is a SEAGATE HARD DISK MODEL NO: ST
317221A
I have already tried the following :
1. Created Primary DOS Partition of 8 GB & Extended DOS Partition
of 4 GB, using WIN98, enabling FAT32 & Formatted the drives. Successfully
loaded WIN98.
2. Booted the system using the LINUX CD & started LINUX CUSTOM
installation. On adding any size NATIVE LINUX partition using mount point "
/ " , the partition is not created. It gives an error message that "No free
space to allocate the partition size", despite the fact, that an entire 4
GB is free. But Linux Swap partition is sucessfully created.
3. We have also tired with FAT 16 partitions of 2.1 GB size each. But
the result is the same.
Kindly provide assistance asap.
Sanjay Agrawal
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