I have a 17 G Western Digital drive (one of the 7200 ata/66 capable drives) it's the 3rd one in my system, on the secondary ata/33 controller as master with my cdrom the slave, on the abit bp6 dual mobo. The other two drives are a half gig, and a 5 gig, which has windows 98se installed. I had previously had win2k rc3 installed on the 17G drive, running ntfs the whole drive. When entering the partition manager, I see it as a type 0x84 partition, it allows me to delete it, but when I try to add a new partition on that drive, it gives me an 'Unknown Error' disallowing me from completing the action. Any ideas here? chad trying to netinstall rh 6.1
Partition type 0x84 is "OS/2 Hidden C:" which is not a partition type that I have an experience with, but I would have to assume that it is not very common :-) Anyway, there is a chance that Disk Druid just does not know how to deal with clearing partitions of this type. My suggestion is the following. Run the install in expert mode (type "linux expert" at the boot prompt) and use fdisk to delete that partition. Then try the installation again and see what happens. My guess is that you will not have any problems from that point. Please post followup information if this workaround does indeed work.
Issue is resolved in next cut of the install code available in beta.