CentOS - Nov 2007 - SOLVED: Re: Partioning Error: Dual Boot, WinXP & CentOS5, 27 GB Free space; my error is?

On 25 November 2007, John Bowden j-alan at btconnect.com wrote:
<snip>
>I think the problem is that you can only have 4 Primary partitions on a
disk.
>If you to convert one of the NTFS partitions to an extended partition, with
>the NTFS partition inside it. Personally, if you want to keep the 4 drive
>letters in windoz, I would back up the whole disk ("in case"), set
up the
>disk with 1 Primary NTFS partition and an extended Partition with the other
3
>NTFS partitions inside it. Leave the free space as free space and let the
>CentOS installer to use the free space as it sees fit
John: THANK YOU! That was it! I blew it away with QtParted and in a
few minutes,
I had it correct. The attention to detail was lacking on that box. I
got the other 2 boxes
up and running, without this frustration. Hopefully they are
partitioned correctly. CentOS
is now installing on that box.  :-)
Lanny

On Monday 26 November 2007 01:15:19 Lanny Marcus wrote:
> On 25 November 2007, John Bowden j-alan at btconnect.com wrote:
> <snip>
>
> >I think the problem is that you can only have 4 Primary partitions on a
> > disk. If you to convert one of the NTFS partitions to an extended
> > partition, with the NTFS partition inside it. Personally, if you want
to
> > keep the 4 drive letters in windoz, I would back up the whole disk
("in
> > case"), set up the disk with 1 Primary NTFS partition and an
extended
> > Partition with the other 3 NTFS partitions inside it. Leave the free
> > space as free space and let the CentOS installer to use the free space
as
> > it sees fit
>
> John: THANK YOU! That was it! I blew it away with QtParted and in a
> few minutes,
> I had it correct. The attention to detail was lacking on that box. I
> got the other 2 boxes
> up and running, without this frustration. Hopefully they are
> partitioned correctly. CentOS
> is now installing on that box.  :-)
> Lanny
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I'm glad to help. I'm new to CentOS, playing around with my first
install at
the moment. I have played around with partitions and file systems though and 
thought that might have been your problem.