disk partitioning problem (ignore the first e-mail I did not mean to send that one)

[Markku Kolkka]

Alex Aguilar kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika maanantai, 25. 
heinäkuuta 2005 13:24):
>          According to my defrag report, witch I have as an
> attachment to this e-mail, I still have 22.65GB's worth of
> free space on my harddisk,

"Free" space within your Windows partition is already reserved 
for the use of Windows, and isn't available for Linux 
installation.

> yet when I used disk druid and 
> chose the option to have my disk automatically formated with
> out erasing any existing partitions, and using the rest of the
> free space on my hard disk, it displayed an error message
> telling me "Error partitioning, could not allocate requested
> partitions partitioning failed: could not allocate partitions
> as primary partitions." What is the problem, and how could I
> fix this?

You don't have any free space _outside_ your Windows partition, 
so the installer can't allocate any new partitions. You must 
resize the Windows partition to create free unpartitioned space.

-- 
 Markku Kolkka
 markku.kolkka at iki.fi