Re: Install partitioning problem


"harry" <a@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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trying to install whitehat 4 respin 1 on a x86 PC

because I don't really understand linux partitioning I choose
"automatically
partition" and then "keep all partitions and use existing free space" BUT
when I click next I get an error saying "could not allocate requested
partitions......." click ok and it says I haven't created a root
partition! - of course I haven't, that's what "automatic" means doesn't
it?



What is happening is that linux has attempted to create the linux file
systems / partitions in the available free partition and has found that
there is not enough available disk space for the root partition to do the
install and has bailed out of the installation without creating any of the
partitions and has left the HDD with it's original partitioning setup.

You haven't said what the current partitioning setup is on the HDD.
A simple and common type of partitioning setup that is used on linux
workstations is
/ ( root )
/boot
swap

It is always better to manually set up the partitions when doing an install
, and the way most people do it is to create the /boot partition first ( 100
Mb ) , then the swap partition ( double the size of your Ram , usually 512
Mb ) and the balance of the HDD is allocated to "/ " (root) partition and
file system.

The type of file systems used for each partition is :
/boot ...........Ext3
/ .............Ext3
swap..............swap

There are other types of partitioning setups for linux , particularly for
critical server environments , but the workstation type of partitioning is
adequate for most home machines.

If you already have an OS on part of the HDD and you want to create a dual
boot setup , then you create the above workstation type setup in the
extended partition.




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