Re: new squeeze-again
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 02:32:40PM -0400, Doug wrote:
> On 9/10/2010 8:22 AM, Rob Owens wrote:
>> 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
>
> The partition table (fdisk -l from PcLOs):
>
> Device Start End.....(Blocks)....Id System
>
> /dev/sda1 1 3961 7 NTFS
> /dev sda2 3962 7113 5 Extended
> /dev/sda5 3962 5529 83 Linux
> /dev sda6 5530 5715 82 Linux swap/Solaris
> /dev/sda7 5716 7113 83 Linux
>
> (block sizes deleted)
>
> Seems to me that sda5, sda6, sda7 are all on the extended partition
> sda2, but maybe I've got it wrong? If I'm correct, as would seem to
> be the case based on the start/end numbers, then what else am I
> doing wrong? Do I have to separately create a partition to put the
> new system on? I thought that squeeze would create it itself.
>
Looks like you should have room for another primary partition. I don't
know why your machine is giving you trouble, but as a workaround maybe
you should try using gparted or fdisk in one of your existing distros,
and create a partition that you can use for the Squeeze installation.
-Rob
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