Re: new squeeze-again

[Rob Owens <rowens@ptd.net>]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:32:20AM +0100, Joao Ferreira gmail wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 01:59 -0400, Doug wrote:
> > Trying to install.  I come to the partitioner.  It says there is 261 GB
> > available.  (This is empty, unpartitioned and unformatted space, left 
> > over after cloning drive from a smaller one.)  On-screen instructions say
> > 
> > [!!] Partition disks
> > 
> > The maximum size for this partition is 261.6 GB
> > 
> > Hint: "max" can be used as a shortcut to specify the maximum size, or
> > enter a percentage (e.g. "20%") to use that percentage of the
> > maximum size.
> > 
> > I try to enter 30 GB <Continue> and get "invalid size <go back>"
> > so I go back, then I try to enter 15% and get the same answer.
> > 
> > What now?  (Max is not an option.)
> 
> this never happened to me... can you take some pictures and publish them
> on some server... I'dd like to see that problem...
> 
> also the screen with the list of partitions and filesystems found...
> 
> it's strange...
> 
Could it be that he already has 4 primary partitions on his disk?  If
this is the case, he won't be able to create another partition no matter
how much free space is available.

-Rob