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.
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