partitioning problems when trying to install Fedora Core 3

[Simon Tonekham]

hello folks,

This is Simon (from another e-mail address and using Thunderbird since I 
unsubscribed from my hotmail account because of growing, annoying 
concerns) , I was attempting to install Fedora on my 2nd hard drive. The 
problem is I experience problems on doing the automatic partitioning 
with Fedora. I'm trying to do the automatic partitioning on my Maxtor 
30GB Hard drive. I've already created a 15GB VFAT partition which 
enables me to share files between Windows and in this case, Linux. I 
also have another 15GB of unallocated space. When I tried to go into the 
"keep all partitions and use the existing free space" option on my 2nd 
hard drive or "hdb". I've been presented with an error indicating that I 
could not allocate the reuqest partitions. This goes as follows:

"Unsatisfied Partition request New part request - mountpoint: none 
uniqueID: 27 type: physical volume (LVM) format: 1 badblocks: none 
device: none drive:['hdb'] primary: none size:0 grow: 1 maxsize: none 
start: none end: none migrate: none origfstype: none"

I also got this error message as well:

"The following errors occured with your partitioning. You have not 
defined a root (/) partition wh ich is required for installation of 
Fedora Core to continue. This can happen if there is not enough space on 
your hard drive(s) for the installation. You can choose a different 
automatic partiton option or click "back" to select manual partitioning."

In my opinion, the manual partitioning is a very painful, tedious and 
meticular (sorry if i misspelled the word) process on establishing 
Fedora. I've checked the 2nd hard drive for errors and bad sectors, but 
there are none on my hard drive. I also defragged my hard drive as well. 
Any suggestions, will be appreciated. Thank you.

Simon

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