On Mon, 01 Nov 1999,Karen M. Heiby wrote:
| > What about swap space? Also, you need to leave a bit of
| > room for "overhead." Linux reserves a few k of each meg for
| > "bad spots" which may crop up later and uses that to fix
| > itself as needed. I'm *guessing* you didn't tell Linux to
| > make the /home on an "extended" partition, did you???
| > John
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| Of course, I know about having to have a swap partition and I'm not having a
| problem with that. It's only 128Mb.
|
| I deleted a 5GB partition and tried to make one 2 GB and
| one 1.5 GB partition which only totals 3.5GB. That would leave 1.5GB for Linux
| to use to reserve space for the bad spots you mention, wouldn't it?
Is there any un-partitioned space in your extended partition? I think you are
allowed four partitions in the primary space, one of which needs to be an
extended partition. If you want to use any non-booting partitions, they have
to be in the extended partition. When you removed the 5 Gig partition, it was
most likely in the primary partition area (outside the extended partition), so
when disk druid tried to write the second Linux (/home) partition, it could not
find any free (unpartitioned) space in the extended partition.
To change this situation without doing yet another re-install of Win98, you
could try fips to set up or resize your existing partitions, or if you have the
full version of PartitionMagic 4 (my personal preference), that will work well
too. I am not familiar with fips, since I use PartitionMagic here.
Unfortunately, the limited version of PartitionMagic that comes with the
Macmillan publication of L-M 6.1 will not produce more than one Linux
partition, and I do not know if it will re-size your DOS partitions in the
extended partition or not.
The advantage of fips is that it is free, and should be on your L-M CD.
Sorry I couldn't be more helpfull,
Ernie
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| I don't think the Disk Druid (used during Mandrake installation) asked me
| whether i wanted the partitions to be extended or primary. It just asks if I
| want "native", "swap" "DOS" etc. But then I'm all confused anyway. I know
| fdisk (Linux) asks that, but I didn't use that.
|
| ;-)
|
| Karen
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| > On Mon, 01 Nov 1999, you wrote:
| > > Hi,
| > >
| > > I followed the Ebooks instructions for partitioning in Disk Druid so I
| > > could make a separate partition for /home.
| > >
| > > I chose my native partition which was 5GB and deleted it, and tried
| > > adding two partitions--one 2GB, one 1.5GB (allowing for lots of extra
| > > room, even) one "native" mounting at / and one "native" mounting at
| > > /home. But as soon as I add the second partition it tells me it was not
| > > allocated, not enough room. I figure I must be doing something wrong.
| > > Any advice?
| > >
