Conditions: Quantum FireBall ex12,7A (12G IDE disk) Boot from CD-ROM, started installing Tried partitioning with Disk Druid Status: Device Req/Act Type hda1 2047M Dos16-bit hda5 4996M OS/2 HPFS (not realy, it a NTFS) hda6 2000M Dos16-bit hda7 2000M Dos16-bit Geom[C/H/S] totel used free hda [1550/255/63] 12158M 11044M 1114M I tried creating a new Linux-Native partition of size 500M Result: Unallocated requested partitions / Boot partition too big Expected: partition created, installation goes on
We are currently waiting to receive some large disks into our test lab to test problems reported such as this and similar ones. Please bear with us.
This problem seems to have been fixed with 6.0. Could not replicate with a large drive in test lab. Recommend upgrading.