Paul Cartwright <ale <at> pcartwright.com> writes: > ... > Fedora 13 live cd > > Solution. > > To fix the above issue, you should correct the present disk layout. You can > > perform this by removing all the existing partitions and creating new > > ones. > not sure if that is possible. Live cd doesn't see any partitions using > gparted. running ubuntu you can't change the sda3 extended partition, because > it is mounted.. Not sure if windows will change an extended partition > size.... > Paul, I just started my f13 live cd on my second notebook. I would suggest forget gparted for now (except that you learned that the same utility sees different things on different distros ...). I started 'fdisk /dev/sda' on my live cd, selected extended partition for deletion (it was accepted), but of course I stopped before hitting 'w' for writing the change permanently. I assume I could finalize it if I wanted. So, because we removed sda7 and sda8, your hardisk should looke like: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 4462 35840983+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda3 4718 12162 59793409 5 Extended Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda5 4718 5961 9989120 83 Linux /dev/sda6 5962 8094 17133291 83 Linux so there is an unallocated space below sda6 and theoretically fedora installer should not complain about no space available, right ? We did more than what Gregory suggested to do with the reallocation of spaces between sda6/7/8 . How about really firing off your f13 live cd, checking for youself 'fdisk -l' and 'fdisk /dev/sda' but ignoring writing the changes as I did above, starting Installation to Harddisk trying out the installer and seeing if the harddisk is yours to rearrange all space below your Win XP which you do not want to touch right now ? You can always interrupt installer and back off to think what you really want. You can consider nuking everything except Win XP partition and then organize it properly for the next 10 years or so ... with smartly preallocated primary partitions and the extended one. Somehaow I hope that this would get rid of that cfdisk error message as well. Try it and tell us what happened and what you are up to if you wish. JB -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
