partitioning problems when trying to install Fedora Core 3

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 03:35:38PM -0500, Simon Tonekham wrote:
> 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.

How hard can even a redhat based system have manged to make creating a /
and swap partition manually?  Just forget LVM and all that, you don't
need it.  It only really comes in handy later to expand partitions
without having to start over.  I know diskdruid that redhat used to use
was a nightmare, but booting the install in expert mode just gave you
cfdisk, which simply worked and did what you asked it to do.

Lennart Sorensen
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