Installer says not enough free space on disc and gives exception

cornel panceac cpanceac at gmail.com
Fri Apr 10 17:38:43 UTC 2009


2009/4/10 Rangeen Basu <sherry151 at gmail.com>

> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>
> wrote:
>
> > sounds more like the case where you have 3 primary partitions + 1
> extended partition which itself is also a primary partition and thus, you
> reached the limit.
>
> Thanks Craig for the reply. I realised this after I sent the mail and
> am feeling stupid right now. So I guess nothing can be done without
> destroying one partition or is there any other way. Is there anyway
> that might allow me to add the new partition into the extended group.
> I know that this is not the support channel but since the thread has
> already reached this far, I am asking this question here.


you can use "parted magic"  live cd (recommended) or any other live cd wich
has gparted on it (like system rescue cd) to resize the extended partition,
this way the new partition will be type "logical", built inside the extended
one.

but, of course,  you'll better backup your data first.

>
>
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