-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 You're welcome :)
I'm happy to help when I can. On 06.02.2012 19:33, Arief M Utama wrote: > > On 02/07/2012 12:23 AM, Mika Suomalainen wrote: 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. > >> Yess, Mika, you are right. > >> Thanks for your help, I really appreciate it :-) > > >> All the best. -arief > > > 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 > - -- 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/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPMA/XAAoJEGfQ7zLAFR1cVdQH/iU7uccwPgigvWWhxOlp7OV6 Wt44XbOhhzwk/XJoCmMw3Fz3BL/bxXu5nQ9qdWwxESmSWk+3uoc7u/BhWRlS5sAR gehTRfWOC8uLWi/0naj+IsKVu5FFR7uJjEMsDiS1v+gmDA4XfMG//Cz9RBy96u0/ vVjyejP8tYWFZkpCuBA4qcsaAvxk+TMjYyQfdZ53HbGJzyCnhT5qnojtwP6B6lES 7bktNO0Z8gjT90CFWeyOcXY9R+CubQGXDYC3tFJKdFUjj9ASZQIRfh7bJwPBZ5lV OtD6u2i5dKw8NawfljYiUZ80rQ3qPhk5UZ2Uh68i9v34+ooZKqxVuBmCH4Osa78= =VnSq -----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/4f300fd8.9080...@gmail.com
