Re: (No Subject)

["Patrik Wiklund" <patrik wiklund candeo se>]

Hi'ya

I'm in the same boat as Danny, but it looks like if LBA is enabled
for your harddrive it can give this strange result....

Perhaps anyone else can give a more delicate respond.

/Patrik

Denny Lee wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I am tyring to partition my main drive to install Linux.  The drive
> is a 10G drive with NT already installed.  The drive is currently
> partitioned into 4 partitions, C is 2 gig, D is 3 gig, E is  3 gig
> and F is 2.7 gig.  All of the partitions were made under NT and
> they are all formatted NTFS, except for F is FAT.  The problem I
> am having is that when I go into disk druid, I get the following:
> 
>       Requested  Actual   Type
> hda1   2015M      2015M   OS/2 HPFS
> hda2   3000M      3000M   OS/2 HPFS
> hda3   2000M      2000M   OS/2 HPFS
> hda4   2748M      2748M   DOS 16-bit>=32
> 
> Drive   Geom        Total  Used    Free
> hda    1024/64/63   2016M  9764M   -7748M
> 
> When I tried to delete hda4, I get
> 
> Drive   Geom        Total  Used    Free
> hda    1024/64/63   2016M  9764M   -5000M
> 
> I can not seem to get any free space to install RedHat.
> I tried using fdisk, but I get the following problem:
> 
> Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginning (non-Linux?)
> 
> phy(1023,0,1) logical(1024,0,1)
> 
> Partition 2 has different physical/logical ending (non-Linux?)
> 
> Phy(1023,63,63) logical (2547,63,63)
> 
> Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginning (non-Linux?)
> 
> phy(1023,0,1) logical(2548,0,1)
> 
> Partition 3 has different physical/logical ending (non-Linux?)
> 
> Phy(1023,63,63) logical (3563,63,63)
> 
> Any help would be great.  Thanks.
> 
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