[LI] Re: Partitioning : No free primary

["Pankaj Mathur" <matsulsan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
I also had a similar problem when I was trying to install RH 6.1 for a 
colleague of mine on a 2GB Hard disk. He wanted to maintain a 200 MB DOS 
partition so I started off with 32 MB of swap and whatever was left was to 
be the LINUX partition. But after allocating the DOS partition, Swap space 
there was approximately 1770 MB of space left & while trying to pass 1768MB 
or so for LINUX partition I got the error "no free space". I tried a couple 
of times but all in vain so I deleted all the partitions except DOS and 
allocated swap and allocated 1500 for LINUX native and slowly incremented it 
to around 1750MB without getting the error (I iterated this for about 3-4 
times to arrive at the max size I could go for LINUX native partition 
without getting the error). I am not sure why it came but I definetly got 
around it. I still have about 8-10 MB of unpartioned space on the disk.
As for the other thing like file system - I have win98+winNT+Linux on my 
office & home computer with the FAT/NTFS/Linux file systems. Linux can read 
the NTFS system without hassels and not being able to write to it is not a 
problem as I store all my data in FAT partition (for for al three OS) for 
ease. the single most advantage of this system is that I can experiment with 
NT and LInux as many times as I like including formatting or deleting the 
partitions without the fear of loosing my data which is on a different 
partition (FAT - I never touch that one for anything). So all curious TOMS 
out there can follow this tip and become safe from potential backfires of 
experimenting.
As someone has already mentioned install them in the sequence win98 then win 
NT then LINUX and never repair the MBR when prompted by window.
bye
Pankaj Mathur
Bangkok

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