[KLUG Members] Trying to partition drive

[members@kalamazoolinux.org]

Evening all...

I have a quick couple of questions.  (I am VERY green at Linux - just 
starting to load it again to play/learn)

I am trying to load Red Hat 7.2 on either one of the two machines I have.  
Both have had this exact version loaded before and since have been formated 
to something different for whatever reason.  Currently I am using the "Have 
the installer automatically partition for you" option at the Disk Partition 
Setup" (I am not to the point that I know how to do this myself) and I am 
getting the same error everytime I try.  The error "Could not allocate 
requested partitions: Partitioning failed: Could not allocate paritions as 
primary partitions.".   One of my first thoughts is my drive is bad, but I 
have several 1 - 4 drives floating around and they all did the same thing 
(even tried a 20 gig).  Then I thought it might be the computer so I put 
together another machine and got the same results. (first is a PIII 800 
512megs ram the second is a Celeron 766 w/256 megs of ram (its cheap!) 
standard WD, Seagate Maxtor drives.)

Any one have any suggestions why this is happening?  I have found a couple 
posts at different boards about the problem but no answers why and what to do 
about it.

If we do not know the answer how about suggestions how to partition the 
1.2gig 1.6gig and/or 2.1gig drives I have..  Some ideas and why you suggest 
this layout.

Thanks
David

Dirk I do still have the Teach Yourself Linux I borrowed a few weeks ago, 
planned on returning it a meeting on the 12th, but the weather stopped me.  I 
will get it back to you as soon as I can make a meeting.