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
