During install, I get "no free resources" on trying to partition the disk. I found on Deja.com the following article: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=628953505&fmt=text After some experimentation with fdisk, I've found that if you define partitions to the point that there's greater than 16, i.e. define /dev/hda17, that Red Hat 6.2 chokes and dies on the install. On the step between fdisk and disk druid, it fails with the message: An error occurred reading the partition table for the block device hda. The error was: No free resources. I lined up a small (8G) disk to test this, so that there wouldn't be any above the line (1024 cyl) problems. I don't think this is a general linux problem, just confined to Red Hat, but I'll have to do some further testing to confirm that. I did indeed have 18 partitions on my disk. I deleted the last few and the install worked. It looks like 16 is a boundry condition in the install code somewhere. HOW TO REPRODUCE partition a disk (I used a 7G Maxtor) with more than 16 partitions (Mine had 18). boot from install CD use text mode install at the point where the installer tries to partition the disk, the error will occur. note: this was not tested under graphical install.
This is a known limitation of the 6.2 installer, and increasing the limit for IDE devices is under consideration.
Brock is this limit still a problem in Pinstripe?
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Deferred to future release.
when the next release (after the current beta) comes out I'll test this. you can be sure I'll open a new bug report if it's not fixed. I've seen (with other vendors) bugs marked as "next release" and then forgotten about.
Fixing bug status- sorry for the email.
Phoebe can create 40 partitions during GUI install. I started with an empty hard drive. There were problems at boot-up though : - /dec/hdxnn exists only up to partition 32, I created the rest ( up to 63 ) manually and then all worked - note : current fdisk ( util-linux-2.11w-2 ) can handle only 16 partitions per (IDE?) disk, use something else for partitioning ( maybe parted )
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.