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Hi, I am having a strange partitioning problem. I
am trying to install Red Hat Linux 8.0 on a Maxtor 40 GB harddisk (Geom:
4998/255/63).
There is already a Windows 2000 professional OS
installed in the harddisk and I am trying to install and configure a dual boot
system.en
Below is a break-down of the current harddisk
status.
Size
Start End
/dev/hda
/dev/hda1
NTFS/HPFS
7460
1 951
Free Free
space 21046 952
3634
/dev/hda2
Extended
10700
3635 4998
/dev/hda5 NTFS/HPFS
10700 3635
4998
What happened was I tried installing Linux on the
Free space available.
First I created a /boot mount point, ext3
filesystem, 100 MB fixed size. So that it falls below the cut-off of 1023. No
prob.
Next, I created a swap fixed size. No prob
too.
So now I have the following:
Size
Start End
/dev/hda
/dev/hda1
NTFS/HPFS
7460 1
951
/dev/hda3
/boot ext3
102 952
964
/dev/hda4
swap 259
965 997
Free Free
space
20685 998 3634
/dev/hda2
Extended
10700 3635 4998
/dev/hda5
NTFS/HPFS
10700 3635 4998 Now, when I tried to create my / partition using
ext3 filesystem, 4000 MB fill to max. allowable size. The following Error
Partitioning message appears:
Could not allocate requested
partitions:
Partitioning failed: Could not
allocate partitions.
I went back and permutate the combinations i.e I
tried installing swap first, followed by / then while trying /boot, /boot
partitioning failed. Or I tried /, followed by /boot then swap would failed. You
can get the idea...
There was once I tried just with /boot and /
without any swap partition and managed to install the OS fully. Is it ok to do
without a swap partition?
Are there any points that I overlooked or did I do
something that is not right during the partition?
Thanks for all your help
Jason
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