zuo chungang wrote: > Dear Sirs:I had a problem when I tried to install fedora 7 on my HP > pavilion a1540n with Windows Media Center Edition 2005 (MCE 2005) in the > same hard-drive. I allocated 5 partitions for my windwos MCE 2005. When I > created a swap partition with 2GB, it was OK. But after that I could > create any other partitions such as /, /boot, etc. If I created a > partition of / with 50GB, it was OK. But I could not create any other > partitions after that. So the problem was I could only create one > partition, but not more than one partition. The message was: Error > Partitioning Could not allocate requested partitions: Partitioning failed: > Not enough space left to create partition for None.But I had about 70GB > space in my hard-drive after I installed Windows MCE 2005. I searched > Internet and could not find the reason and solution. That is why I look > for your help here.Sincerely,Chun > _________________________________________________________________ My advice would be to download the knoppix CD (or any Linux Live CD) and use that to partition the disk before installing Fedora. The partitioning software in Fedora is bizarre. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
