This is maybe a problem with the 8GB limit.
Try to create the / partition within the first 8 GB of the hd.
The problem is that you should repartition your windows partition.
Or Maybe you can try to resize it with the installation program of the mandrake
7.0, but I think you should make a backup of your windows partition before
trying that...
good luck. Hope it'll help.
RICHARD FRIEDMAN wrote :
> First of all, TIA for any help you can give. A friend of mine is trying to
> install Mandrake 6.0 on his laptop. He has a 24gb hard drive. Approximately
> 12GB are dedicated to Windoze. The rest is all free space.
>
> During the install, he is using Disk Druid to create the Linux partitions.
> He is able to create the swap and /home partitions. When trying to create
> the / partition, he gets a message from Disk Druid saying there is not
> enough free space for the partition. This seems to happen regardless what
> size he tries to make it. He started trying to create a 1GB partition. Then
> he lowered it to 800mb, 500mb, and so on. It did no good. He still received
> the same message.
>
> Any ideas what could be happening?
>
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