> Hello! > > > According to my defrag report, witch I have as an attachment to > this e-mail, I still have 22.65GB's worth of free space on my harddisk, yet > when I used disk druid and chose the option to have my disk automatically > formated with out erasing any existing partitions, and using the rest of the > free space on my hard disk, it displayed an error message telling me "Error > partitioning, could not allocate requested partitions partitioning failed: > could not allocate partitions as primary partitions." What is the problem, > and how could I fix this? I realy want to have linux installed on my pc, it > will be my first distribution. > > #################The origional message I had sent before this one, that was > already replied > to############################################################################# > > Hello! > > > I already have windows XP home edition installed on my pc, and I am trying > to configure my pc to duel boot between windows XP, and Fedora, but first I > have to install fedora on a seperate partition. should this partition be a > primary partition, or an extended one? also I was reading how to install > fedore for windows duel boot on the download site <fedora.redhat.com> (the > exact URL of my location was > <http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/install-guide/s1-x86-dualboot-parted.html>), > and I got to the part where I am told to insert the CD > (FC4-i386-rescuecd.iso for the "parted tool"), type rescue, select language, > select skip when I am prompted "Will not attempt to find a Red Hat Linux > install to rescue, and then finally where I am prompted (I guess by parted) > on what partitions that I would like to repartition. I am told to type one > of these commands at the prompt: parted/dev/hdx, or parted/dev/sdx; where > "x" is the partition ! number of the hard drive that I want to partition.(On > top of not knowing what command to use) Know I am aware that in Linux drives > hda1-3 are resurved for primary partitions, while 4 is for a single extended > partition, and 5 on up is for logical drives located with in the extended > partition; but what number should I input into the "x" variable of my > commands, so that I will not erase windows XP, but yet at the same time > still have a fully functional linux operating system?(I would like my system > to start up on windows XP upon start up, unless I press F8 and select Fedora > from the boot menu(since I will be the only on in my house using linux > Fedora.) > > The 'x' you need will normally be a 'a' if you have installed windows on your first ide hard drive or 'b' if it's on the second, etc. If you've installed (or planniny to install) on an usb-disk, it wil be sd + 'a' (for the first), 'b' (for the second), etc... This means you'll probably will have to enter: parted /dev/hda hda1,hda2,hda3, ... are partitions on youre hda, the first drive Hope this helps, Bart
