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Primary partition needed for Fedora installation?
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| Solstice 2005-01-25, 8:47 pm |
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My dual-boot PC had Win2K and Fedora 3 on each of the two hard
drives. Recently the drive with FC3 crashed. Since there is ~70GB
of unused space on the first drive, I tried to reinstall FC3 on
this disk, but the installation failed complaining about being
unable to find a primary partition. Since the Win2K drive has four
NTFS partitions on it, I understand that I cannot create another
primary partition. But my previous FC 1, 2, and 3 installations
were all created on extended partitions. Could anyone explain why
I got that error message about primary partition? Thanks.
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Solstice wrote:
> My dual-boot PC had Win2K and Fedora 3 on each of the two hard
> drives. Recently the drive with FC3 crashed. Since there is ~70GB
> of unused space on the first drive, I tried to reinstall FC3 on
> this disk, but the installation failed complaining about being
> unable to find a primary partition. Since the Win2K drive has four
> NTFS partitions on it, I understand that I cannot create another
> primary partition. But my previous FC 1, 2, and 3 installations
> were all created on extended partitions. Could anyone explain why
> I got that error message about primary partition? Thanks.
"Since the Win2K drive has four NTFS partitions on it..." there is no
more room for _any_ kind of partition. The limit is:
-- 4 primaries, or
-- 3 primaries + 1 extended (which can contain a number of logical
partitions)
You will have to delete at least one primary partition -- recommend the
last one.
Two partitions deleted for use by FC3 would be even better, IMO. Use
one for /boot (a primary) and the other extended (divided for your
other FC3 partitions).
If you do delete partitions, make sure W2K stays happy before
continuing with FC3 install.
hth,
prg
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