On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 13:02 -0500, Hongyu Sun wrote: > My comptuer is from Dell. > > http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim4600/en/4600/sm/specs.htm#1084976 > > It has 512MB memory. one whole piece of 80GB hard drive from which > Windows use 70GB. For the 70GB I partitioned it to C: drive for > Windows OS Presumably /dev/hda1 > D: drive for data Guessing /dev/hda2 > and some small left-over space for > nothing. That's likely /dev/hda3 > What I saw in the fedora installation, the 10GB is called like > /dev/sda4 >From your other message, /dev/hda4 > I only format this whole 10GB to ext3 and mount it to / > > I cannot split the 10GB so that I could mount a part to /boot and > create a SWAP. That's because you have used all 4 partition slots for primary partitions. You will need to leave at least one slot for an extended partition. Delete /dev/hda4, and if possible /dev/hda3 (the "nothing" partition), by booting from the installation disk and switching to virtual console 2 with Ctrl-Alt-F2 after the GUI starts, but before getting to the partitioning stage, and using fdisk. > But in manual, at least three partitions are needed: /, /boot and SWAP The installer should be able to do that for you if you give it some freedom to use the partition table. Please do not top-post. Phil
