Okay. I'll give it a go.
Roman
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> Roman....delete hda5 and then push the Auto Allocate button.
>
> Alan
>
> Romanator wrote:
> >
> > Hi Alan,
> >
> > I had draw and write this out as there is no print screen.
> > The auto allocation only works if my disk has not been
> > partitioned yet or is empty. I have tried as best as
> > possible with ASCII to show my page setting:
> >
> > I can see in the DrakX installation:
> >
> > The Setup file systems
> >
> > File system types: Ext2 Swap FAT Other Empty
> > ---------
> > | hda |
> >
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > | -------------------- -------------------
> > ------------------------------
> > | | | |
> > | | |
> > | | C | | D |
> > | E |
> > | | | |
> > | | |
> > | -------------------- --------------------
> > ------------------------------
> > | ---------------
> > | |Choose action| | Details
> > ----------------------------------------
> > | ---------------|
> > | Device: hda5
> > | |Mount point |
> > | DOS drive letter: D (just a guess)
> > | ---------------|
> > | Type: DOS FAT16
> > | | Resize |
> > | Size: 2047 MB (10%)
> > | ---------------| |
> > | | Delete | |
> > | ---------------| |
> > _______________________________________________________
> > __________________
> > | Clear all |
> > | Auto allocate | |
> > Undo |
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ------------------------
> > ___________________________________________________________________________
> >
> > |
> > Done
> > |
> >
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Note:
> > hda is the entire drive
> > hda1 is the 1st partition or drive C
> > hda5 is the 2nd partition or drive D
> >
> > 1. In the comments section, the following was copied(I could
> > not find any other way of copying the instructions)
> > Two common partition are: the root partition ( / ), which
> > is the starting point of the file system's directory
> > hierarchy,
> > and /boot, which contains all files necessary to start the
> > operating system when the computer is first turned on.
> >
> > Since I did not want to reformat the entire 20 Gig. drive, I
> > selected the 2nd button - which is hda5
> >
>***************************************************************************************
> >
> > This is were the confusion sets in:
> >
> > 2a) Click on the 2nd button of hda5. Don't forget that this
> > is a factory install from Dell.
> > 2b) Under choose action, click on the Mount point button.
> > Another window pops up asking:
> > Where do you want to mount device hda5?
> > Next to the Mount point field appears: /
> > I can click on the OK button and it adds this to hda5
> > 2c) If I click on the drop down arrow, select and replace (
> > / ) with ( /boot ), the button will show /boot.
> > A drop down arrow shows the following selection.
> >
> > /
> > /boot
> > /home
> > /mnt/dos
> > /mnt/iso
> > /tmp
> > /usr
> > /va
> >
> > 3a. If I click the 2nd blue button ( hda5 ), select the
> > delete button, it will indicate that the partition D or hda5
> > is empty.
> > 3b) By clicking on the auto allocate button a message
> > appears:
> > partitions sector #6506388.37878788 (3702 MB) and sector
> > #8385993 (614938 MB are overlapping!
> > at /usr/bin/perl - install/common.pm line 205. ...
> > propagated at /usr/bin/perl - install/diskdrake.pm line 47
> > 3c) I clicked on the OK button and all of the Ext2, Swap
> > were all there.
> >
> > Sounds confusing?
> >
> > Sorry about the long email, and I hope you understand what I
> > am getting at. I cannot reformat the entire drive - just
> > about 1/2 of D.
> >
> > Roman
