Re: Having trouble to partition my hard drive during Red Hat Installation

[Ron Bramblett <bramblet fuller com>]

Hello Diego,
I have had some experience with fdisk and etc. I worked as a windoze tech for a
while. Have you gone into your dos or windows and ran fdisk from there?? If you
do go in an remove any partition on that one.

Another thing to look at. Linux boot partition must reside completely below
1024th cylinder of hard drive. Below the 8 GB mark. Look at www.linuxnewbie.org
and look for dual boot.

I just set up a dual boot but I loaded windows first then loaded Linux. This
was done after a backup of the linux stuff and just reformating the whole hard
drive.


Diego del Río wrote:

> I'm having problems to make the hard disk partitions when installing Red Hat
> 7.
> I have a Western Digital 20 GB hard disk (model WD200BB), it is partitioned
> following this schema:
>     1GB Primary Dos Partition
>     2GB Extended Dos Partition
>     13 GB NTFS Partition
>     3.1 GB Unallocated
>
> I'd like to install linux using the unpartitioned space. During the
> installation, i choose to define the partitions manually using fdisk or
> diskdruid, but with both of them i failed when i tried to add the second
> partition. I got the message "The partition you asked to add could not be
> allocated. No free primary"
>
> Has anybody experienced something similar.
>
> Thanks in advanced,
>
> Diego
>
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