On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 6:01 PM, kenneth gonsalves <law...@thenilgiris.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 17:56 +0530, Arun Khan wrote: >> > [root@xlquest lawgon]# blkid >> > /dev/sda1: UUID="00de097a-9323-433f-83a9-1858f44602d0" TYPE="ext4" >> > /dev/sda2: UUID="b86bef0e-3402-41b2-b814-3e9f870fb2f7" TYPE="ext4" >> > /dev/sda3: UUID="1c6294e2-e738-4282-b666-0a783988dd08" TYPE="swap" >> > /dev/sda5: UUID="b81886a1-ffd8-4e1c-a8b2-f9a0599768c5" TYPE="ext4" >> >> I guess Mint installer is looking for a partition w/o any filesystem >> on it. Your /dev/sda5 has an ext4. > > as mentioned at the time when I tried I had unused unformatted free > space on the disk. >
Please ignore what I said in my earlier post. Please follow up with Baskar's request for the /etc/fstab contents in your Fedora installation. I agree with him, it looks like you do not have any free hard disk space. To be sure: Within Fedora, try to create sda6 and let us know the result. -- Arun Khan "As a layman, I would say we have it, but as a scientist I have to say, 'What do we have?'" Rolf Heuer, Director General CERN on the announcement of Higgs Boson particle. _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
