[ltp] RH6.1 on TP600E and 10GB - Only 7.5 GB seen

[geezzer]

I've got an 600e as well but I used Partition Magic 4 with the patches
and had no problems intsalling Mandrake 6.1 into my Primary & extended logical
partitions.

Try it you self

Andrei :-)


japetit@adhoc-computing.com wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm new on this list, and expect not to be the third today with that
> problem.
>
> I tried to install RedHat 6.1 on a TP600E. Everithing runs fine...  except
> that I cannot get my full room.
> I explain myself. TP comes with Win98 and I want to keep it running (for
> Lotus Notes Client mainly... and software tests)
>
> I want to keep a partition for data exchange as big as 2 GB. So the
> expected config of HD is
>
> 2 GB Win98 (FAT32)
>
> 7.5 GB Extended, including
> 2 GB data (FAT32)
> 16 MB /boot
> 256 MB swap partition
> 256 MB /var
> 5 GB /    main Linux partition
>
> At installation time, DDruid sees only a 7.5 GB partition and my two 2GB
> partitions, so telling me that there is only room for 3.5 GB instead of
> about 5.5
> I installed by letting my main partition extend to full the disk, but it
> doesn't extend more than 3.5 GB
> I tried without the data partition, but after that, the extended partition
> has been resized to 5.5 and there is no place left.
> I used PQMagic to resize the extended partition, but I cannot place my data
> partition bigger than 500MB (1024 cylinders) nor transform it to FAT32 as
> too little.
>
> I feel this really frustrating, and more, as there is no problem for Win98
> to see my full disk and format a partition of 7.5 GB on that disk...
>
> Are there limitations due to DiskDruid? Am I wrong in my procedures? What
> can I do to solve this?
>
> For now, I run with my Win98 config, and the expected config, except that
> my main partition is about 3 Gb instead of 5 and there is free space of
> about 2GB at the end of my disk...  unused space...
> Is there a tool to extend my main linux partition?
>
> Regards,
> Jacques-Andre Petit
> Brussels
>
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