Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 9178
Installer crashes with multiple free space areas
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:54 EDT
After installing NT 4.0 Workstation on one part of a disk, two free areas were left alongside the NTFS partition. This seemed to have the following effects on the installer: * Strange partition allocation behaviour. Complaints about insufficient space appeared which would confuse anyone unaware of the free space configuration. The installer does not report such anomalies but they do affect the size of partitions that can be allocated. * Complaints about "No free primary" which don't seem to be explained anywhere. * The installer crashes after asking where LILO is to be placed. Perhaps this may have been due to LILO already being resident on the master boot record (MBR).
Please send details (including error messages) of the things that you are seeing. The message about "no free primary" is a result of have all of the primary partitions on the drive (1-4) assigned and then trying to create another primary partition. Hard drives on Intel machines can only have 4 primary partitions, 1 extended partition (which occupies a priamry partition) and then a fixed number of partitions within the extended partition (think it is 16)
Closing out bug due to lack of activity.