problem installing Fedora 8

[Buz Davis]

 >That sounds like the classic "I can't find enough disk" anaconda error.
 >Unless you do an "update existing system" (NOT recommended when making
 >as big a jump as you are) or "replace existing system" install (where
 >anaconda blows the old Linux partitions away and starts over), anaconda
 >wants "unused" disk space (space not in any used partition).

Thanks, Rick.

As I recall I do have extra space available on the disk that hasn't been 
assigned to any partition.  Would it help to make another partition of 
it ?  If so, would I have to also make a filesystem or would anaconda
prefer it unformatted ?