-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06.02.2012 19:06, Arief M Utama wrote: > Hi Mika, > > First, thank you for your reply, > > > On 02/07/2012 12:03 AM, Mika Suomalainen wrote: Hi, > > I think that I had same problem some time ago. First I shrinked > Windows partition with gparted on Ubuntu* CD. When I tried to > create new partition for Debian, it said something like "You have > too many primary partitions. The maximum of primary partitions is > 4. You can create multiple partitions by removing one partition and > creating a new 'extended partition'. I did this and I was able to > create partition for Debian and swap partition. > >> May I know what is the size of your disk?
465.76 GIB >> My problem is I can't do anything at all to that "free" space, >> there's nothing I could use to create any type of partition >> there. Hmm, or there is :-) Maybe I could try fdisk and see how >> it goes, I totally forgot about this. I had that problem too. Every time when I tried, it gave that error message which I said previously. I was able to create partitions from that free space after I removed the recovery partition and made extended partition on it's place. To that partition I have been able to create more. My partition table in gparted currently looks like this: Partition Filesystem Table (used, free and flags aren't probably needed and I am too lazy to write them) /dev/sda1 ntfs SYSTEM (This is probably that "Windows-helper" partition, I don't know). /dev/sda2 ntfs /dev/sda3 extended /dev/sda5 linux-swap /dev/sda6 ext4 unallocated unallocated /dev/sda4 fat32 HP_TOOLS unallocated unallocated >> Thanks for the pointer! > > >> All the best. -arief > > > (*I'm not familiar with text mode install partitioning which > Debian uses so I used gparted in Ubuntu CD to make sure that I > won't accidentally remove Windows partition.) > > I hope that this helps. On 06.02.2012 18:36, Arief M Utama wrote: >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> >>>> I thought I'm already a veteran user until I discovered I >>>> know almost nothing about this problem today :-D >>>> >>>> Got a problem here, I have a laptop with pre-installed >>>> windows, the partition scheme is more-or-less like this: >>>> >>>> - 100M partition (hidden) - seems like a Windows-helper >>>> partition (I read something about it, forgotten now) - ~960 >>>> GB Windows partition - ~20GB Recovery partion - ~10M another >>>> part of recovery partition >>>> >>>> When I tried to install debian, What I did was shrinking the >>>> 960GB partition to ~900GB, then I thought I could have ~60GB >>>> for linux. >>>> >>>> But then it said the free space is unusable, I cant do any >>>> partitioning on it. >>>> >>>> Anyone familiar with this problem? Is this something to do >>>> about the partition table can't handle large disk size >>>> issue? >>>> >>>> Any help and pointers are appreciated. >>>> >>>> Please CC me on your replies as I am not subscribed to >>>> debian-user currently. >>>> >>>> Thanks :-) >>>> >>>> >>>> All the best. -arief >>>> >>>> > > -- Mika Suomalainen >>>> gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 03D41B0D >>>> C0151D5C gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys >>>> 8751C396 > - -- Mika Suomalainen > gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 03D41B0D C0151D5C > gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 8751C396 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPMAyPAAoJEGfQ7zLAFR1cZwoH/0KLNieTRQN+r1xCdMBvLOHA s9Ki7yIov1MEYsZXvbq9ZuLwq2FmyFI6kmaIeTI2ZJxdjl1XyytBvYl+lNdl2Ai8 kf/O9C6a8Y8TS+OalCikcbhX7ed08Ehy6uagkhtT4msBuh/7W4QnZ+PKV2n75ez4 3IeWwYrkbJpKUxu50YDs8fXjHUrutRUbwNmu6qB1pzrG4vSbVz4wzgdsHIzgGwj0 T0gdKbkJhPaKavJkNlV4eZeSrnBJyahWBao6h6RDUm8pKyhi02Pv0I96/damWnVN ZghVq9RPZHHIVxaPcKs1mAl14+bqgfLYOsgJy16SRSIk4j/m8BaqKN4GUeUeHAM= =19iC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f300c90.70...@gmail.com
