Alex Aguilar kirjoitti viestiss� (l�tysaika maanantai, 25. hein�uta 2005 13:24): > 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, "Free" space within your Windows partition is already reserved for the use of Windows, and isn't available for Linux installation. > 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? You don't have any free space _outside_ your Windows partition, so the installer can't allocate any new partitions. You must resize the Windows partition to create free unpartitioned space. -- Markku Kolkka markku.kolkka@xxxxxx
