From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: When I chose "Automatically Partition" in the installer, and then select either "Remove all Linux partitions on this system." or "Keep all partitions and use existing free space.", I'm presented with 2 error messages. I tried with or without checking the 'review partitions' box, with the same result. I can't tell what happens if I chose the third one which deletes all partitions, I don't want to go that far right now, but I suspect it would probably be the same. The error messages are as follows, appearing as 2 consecutive dialog boxes: "Could not allocate requested partitions: Unsatisfied partition request New Part Request -- mountpoint: None uniqueID: 3 type: physical volume (LVM) format: 1 badblocks: None device: None drive: ['hda'] primary: None size: 0 grow: 1 maxsize: None start: None end: None migrate: None origfstype: None" When you hit 'OK' here, the second error comes up: "The following errors occurred with your partitioning: You have not defined a root partition (/), which is requred for installation of Fedora Core to continue. This can happen if there is not enough space on your hard drive(s) for the installation. You can chose a different auto partitioning option, or click 'Back' to select manual partitioning. Press 'OK' to continue." If I go back and chose the manually partition option, it moves on gracefully to the partition editor where my drive appears. I have not tried to do anything there yet. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot installation cd with no extra parameters 2. Select "Automatically Partition" 3. Select "Remove all Linux partitions on this system" OR select "Keep all partitions and use existing free space" 4. Click 'Next' Actual Results: The above mentioned error messages appear consecutively. Expected Results: What the chosen options should do. Additional info: My hardware configuration: Pentium 4 2.8 with HT enabled on an Intel D875PBZ motherboard with 1gb RAM. A 40GB hard drive split into 2 equally sized partitions, the first having a working installation of Windows XP, and the second being unpartitioned space.
How did you have the machine partitioned previously?
The hard drive was initially partitioned a long time ago using a Windows bootdisk iirc. It did however work fine the exact same way when I installed FC2, what I did is simply delete all FC2 partitions through the XP disk manager, and try this now. I've managed to install FC3 successfully using manual partitioning, I added a 100MB /boot, a 2048MB /swap, and a / partition filling all remaining space. I installed grub to the first bootsector, it boots fine using the XP loader (and a linux.bin), here's the output of fdisk -l: Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77545 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 38772 19541056+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 38776 38984 104422+ 83 Linux Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hda3 38984 43143 2096482+ 82 Linux swap Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hda4 43143 77536 17334135 5 Extended Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hda5 43143 77536 17334103+ 83 Linux Disk /dev/hdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 * 1 9729 78148161 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hdb2 9730 19457 78140160 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hdb5 9730 19457 78140128+ b W95 FAT32
I think I committed a fix for this. You managed to get a workaround.
I see the same thing after using qtparted to resize the NTFS partition on my new IBM laptop so that I have 40GB free space for FC3. I initially left the space unformatted, but after getting the error message I used qtparted to format it ext3. I still got the same error message, though, the only difference being that my "uniqueID" is "36".