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[Vinoth kumar <vinothkumar_v@example.com>]

Quoting  Jonathan Q <jq@example.com>:

> shane eastwood (fulingus7@example.com) wrote:
> 
> > the error message i receive after i attempt to configure the
> partitions at the GUi of automatic partitioning is:
> > "Could not allocate requested partitions: Partitioning failed:
> > Could not allocate partitions as primary partitions."
> 
> Yamagata-san said I would tell you not to use automatic partitioning,
> and
> I won't let him down: "Don't use automatic partitioning."
> 
> It would be nice if it said why it oculdn't allocate partitions.  Red
> Hat must be taking lessons from MS on how to produce totally useless
> error messages.
> 
> > I have experimented with FIPS which works especially in FIPS -d
> > which is debug mode
> > however the partition for windows which i allocated to be smaller on
> the hard drive than the RH to be one'....somehow, mysteri! ously on the
> RH.7.2 installer appears as a part of the larger of the 2 partitions and
> the smaller one yet to assigned a OS etc.
> 
> At least you got it partitioned, that's a step in the right direction.
> 
> What we need to know now are exactly what partitions exist on the disk.
> You can get this information from Linux fdisk.  To get it, go through
> the install process until you get to the partitioning section, where
> you
> can choose to auto partition, partition manually with Disk Druid, or
> partition manually with fdisk.  Choose fdisk and click the button
> for /dev/hda.
> 
> In fdisk, type p to get a listing of your current partition table.
> post this information to the list.
> 
> You should see at least two partitions that look something like this
> (the example is for a single partition):
> 
> Command (m for help): p
> 
> Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 261 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *         1       261   2096451   83  Linux
> 
> 
> Email that info to the list so we can see what your partition table
> looks like and give you some advice on how to proceed.
> 
> > An IBM guru offered this, but it could be out of my cognitive
> threshold as RH7.2 manual suggests not ot use it, unless experienced
> with this program:
> > 
> > "I would suggest deleting all partitions using fdisk, then running
> "fdisk \mbr" and then re-trying to use Linux partitioning tool."
> 
> Yes, that would work, however, did s/he explain also that deleting your
> partitions means Win 98 and your data and everything are gone?  You
> wouldn't want to overlook that minor detail :-)
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> 

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