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PhillyNewbie
2007-02-17, 01:54 PM CST
I recently installed a second harddrive. It is a WD 250 gig internal 7200 rpm cavier model. Here is the problem During install, I THINK, Fedora i386 claimed the entire drive. If I look at the drive in QTParted, it shows as available, but does not show as being formated in ext3 (attached screen shot).

To complicate things, I am trying to install the 64 bit version of Fedora to live along side the i386 version. I keep getting an install error telling me I don't have enough room to install to. The install disk see the second drive, and it has a linux directory structure, but I can't grab any space on on it.

I also don't think I am getting access to all the space I allocated to Fedora on my primary harddrive. I have attached that screen shot as well.

Any and all help is greatly appreciated!

Mark
joe.pelayo
2007-02-17, 02:16 PM CST
During the installation process you are prompted to create the necessary partitions. You can leave the process to FC itself (automatic) or do it your self (custom). In the first case it will claim the entire hard drive, in the second you will be able distribute the space).
If you don't have any partition in your hard drive I would think FC will not find the necessary space.
PhillyNewbie
2007-02-17, 02:41 PM CST
Can I add a partition now, or am I doomed to reinstall?
PhillyNewbie
2007-02-17, 02:44 PM CST
Plus, I can't resize using QTParted in Knoppix. I just tried, an no go.
joe.pelayo
2007-02-17, 03:12 PM CST
I think you can create the partitions now. However it is not a bad moment to do so during the install process, unless you have to resize something (I have never resized anything within FC install process).
joe.pelayo
2007-02-17, 03:14 PM CST
As an alternative to the resizing with Knoppix I suggest again trying with Ubuntu, or, if you are used to command line, boot from your FC CD/DVD, type linux rescue and from the resulting console try to use fdisk (learn to use fdisk first, hopefully it can resize).
PhillyNewbie
2007-02-17, 04:04 PM CST
Didn't work in Ubanta either. I am thinking that perhaps since it is showing as LVM, not ext3 that the install disks don't recognize it as usable. Also, how can I tell if any data is actually on that drive? It seems to be all free space. 238 gig of 250 drive sounds like the total usable portion to me.

Thanks.