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woodyak
10-11-2001, 10:29 AM
I'm installing RH62 on a server. This server has a RAID5 card in it configured as one big 51 gig logical drive. When I get to the partitioning part of the install I go into disk druid and I try to set up the following partitions.
/boot = 150mb
/home = 6000mb
/usr = 40000mb
/var = 1000mb
/ = 1000mb
swap = 2000mb

When I get to setting up the / partition I get the following error "There are currently unallocated partitions present in the list of requested partions." and then below it shows the / partions with the "No free slots" message.

What does this mean? How do I get past it?

m3rlin
10-11-2001, 10:46 AM
I think that you put wrong a particion, because he is saying that he can't find a particion that you specified on the lilo.
Use particion magic for example to check up the correct adress of the particion

bdg1983
10-11-2001, 01:25 PM
Sorry as I have no idea what that error could mean.

Just a little advise...

150mb for /boot is overkill. You could get by with 20mb and even that would be too much.

2gb for /swap ??? How much memory do you have? They recommend 2.5 times the amount of real memory up to a certain point. If you have 256mb real memory, then I would think 128mb swap would be sufficient. My swap is never used though I have one just in case.