Bug 75552

Summary: No free primary
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Need Real Name <noluckschmuck>
Component: installerAssignee: Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Current configuration of my hard drive. none

Description Need Real Name 2002-10-09 21:08:31 UTC 
Description of Problem:

I partitioned my 80GB Seagate with PartitionMagic
(under Windows Me), leaving 16GB of free space
at the end of my secondary partition.
I began my instillation of Linux 7.1, booting off of
CD #1 from the package. When I got to Disk Druid,
I clicked on the "add" button, added the swap partition (128MB).
I then clicked on the "add" button again to add the boot
partition, allocating 32MB. When I did this, I got
an error message for the swap partition ---> "No free primary."

WTF?????

I KNOW there is at least 16GB of free space available.
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Comment 1 Need Real Name 2002-10-09 21:15:23 UTC 
Created attachment 79708 [details]
Current configuration of my hard drive.
Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2002-10-14 16:22:35 UTC 
Red Hat Linux 7.1 enforced the constraint that /boot had to be on a primary
partition and you have no free primary partitions.  Newer releases do not
require this.