Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 59260
Auto partitioning failed with vfat and free space
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:39:43 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD (WinNT; U) Description of problem: Automatic partitioning failed with dialog "could not partition" with dev/hda1 as vfat and free space. Manually deleted both and partitioned with default values from previous automatic partitioning install on another machine. Completed install successively and running without problems. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Partition drive to give dev/hda1 6142 vfat and Free of 8 or similar 1.Start install 2.At partitioning select automatic 3. Actual Results: As described above Expected Results: On previous machine without free space partitioned with default values. This is my second install with 7.2 Additional info:
If you selected to autopartition and only delete linux partitions, and there was only 8M of space left on the drive, I would expect autopartitioning to fail because 8M is not enough space. What did you expected to happen?
As I recall I elected to overwrite the existing vfat but maybe I missed something. On another machine with a single vfat partition it worked OK. I thought the free space was causing a problem. I was not intending to install to the 8 MB of free space.
To overwrite the existing vfat partitions, you have to select to delete all partitions on the system. Did you select deleting just the linux partitions or all partitions?
Closing due to inactivity, please reopen if you contine to have problems.
Created attachment 58667 [details] RH Linux installer crash dump-partitions vfat and free issue
I faced this issue when installing RHL 7.2. I have Windows 2000 installed. I'm trying to add Linux to my hard disk while preserving Windows. Initially, after choosing automatic partitioning Anaconda reported a warning that "the partition table is inconsistent". And then I got similar messages to what is described previously by argosy. The difference is that I have the 'free' part with either 2 MB or <1 MB.
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.