[tamike]

I have a pentium 4 pc that has a 40 GB HDD partitioned to 14 pastitions. i have installed on the following on it:

Redhat 7.3
Debian 2.2.6
Turbolinux
Suse 8.0
Slack 8.1
Mandrake 9.0
All the distros i installed after RH went ok.
Now im trying to instal Redhat 8.0 to another parition, and when i get to the place where i have to choose the partitioning type, no matter what i choose from the 3 options, this is what it says:
"The Partition table in hda was unreadable. To create new partitions it must be initialized causing All data to be lost."
then if i press no it will exit.
does anyone have an idea?

[lynch]

How mush space do you have left on that hdd?And what bootloader are you using?Maybe it thinks you're trying to upgrade 7.3.
I searched around for any release notes that would shed some light on this but had no luck.I'm interested in knowing why this is happening and if I hear anything I'll post back.
Good luck
lynch

[tamike]

I still have at least 12 GB of space. Im using Lilo. and what im thinking is maybe because im trying to install to the extended partitions.
I have Redhat 7.3 on primary1, swap on 2, 3 and 4 are empty (primary also).
then i have the others starting from hda5 (extended).
im not trying to upgrade. Even if i choose upgrade, it doesnt allow.
what im doubting is maybe the size of the HDD (40 GB).

thanks

[lynch]

Mike,still trying to find out why RH * doesnt want to install
Is it possible for you to list the exact layout of your hdd,ie. open an xterm and type:
fdisk -l
to see your partition table?
I know this link wont help but I thought you might find it interesting
lynch

[tamike]

i can see the partition table and everything looks ok.
i still have 4 empty partitions and the others seem to be fine.
the thing is that RH is not detecting the hda.