[KLUG Members] Trying to partition drive

[Wesley Leonard]

Maybe try partitioning it manually with Disk Druid (it's GUI and pretty easy to
use).

For a basic install you'll just need a swap partition ( make it twice the size
of your RAM ) and a / (slash) partition, which is the rest of the disk after the
swap partition.

See if disk druid gives you any weird messages.

good luck

l8er

Keyzs4@aol.com wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
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