Re: [PLUG] Partition help needed

[Sarod Yatawatta <sby22@drexel.edu>]

I think you have already created the 4 primary partitions. (hde1, hde2,
hde3 and hde4). So anything else should be created under the extended
partition hde2. Since this has a VFAT under it,(hde5) it may cause
trouble.
I think you can do 2 things:
1) using a / and a swap, do a minimal install. then boot up in linux,
create new partitions as you like and move the / to the place you want it
to be.
2) delete the extended VFAT (hde5) and try again ???

good luck.
sarod.


On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Arthur S. Alexion wrote:

> Trying to install Red Hat 7.2 on system that has 2 physical drives, a 1 
> gb IDE partitioned as the existing windows boot drive, a 40 gb ATA/100 
> with 2 vfat partitions of 2.2 gb each.  One partition shows up in Disk 
> Druid as hde1, and the other as hde2 (extended) and hde5 (graphically 
> appearing as a branch of hde2).
> 
> Workstation install.
> 
> Tried automatic partitioning which failed, dumping me into Disk Druid.
> 
> Using Disk Druid, I successfully set it up to add a 39 mb /boot 
> partition (hde3), and a 15226 / partition (hde4).
> 
> Now, it won't let me add a /home or swap partion of any size.
> 
> I suspect the fact that the vfat partition is hde5 is the reason.
> 
> What can I do?
> 
> Is using just / & swap ok?
> 
> I have a copy of Partition Magic that works on ext2 partitions if that 
> helps.
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