Installer says not enough free space on disc and gives exception

[cornel panceac]

2009/4/10 cornel panceac <cpanceac at gmail.com>

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> 2009/4/10 Rangeen Basu <sherry151 at gmail.com>
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>> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>
>> wrote:
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>> > sounds more like the case where you have 3 primary partitions + 1
>> extended partition which itself is also a primary partition and thus, you
>> reached the limit.
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>> Thanks Craig for the reply. I realised this after I sent the mail and
>> am feeling stupid right now. So I guess nothing can be done without
>> destroying one partition or is there any other way. Is there anyway
>> that might allow me to add the new partition into the extended group.
>> I know that this is not the support channel but since the thread has
>> already reached this far, I am asking this question here.
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> you can use "parted magic"  live cd (recommended) or any other live cd wich
> has gparted on it (like system rescue cd) to resize the extended partition,
> this way the new partition will be type "logical", built inside the extended
> one.
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see

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/larry/resize/resizing.htm

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> but, of course,  you'll better backup your data first.
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>> Thanks
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>> Fedora Ambassador
>> sherry151 at gmail.com
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