Fedora 15 couldn't find free space

sqa4life · #1 10th July 2012, 07:18 AM

Hello,
I am new to Linux.
I was trying to install Fedora 15 on my existing Windows 7 PC. I still have over 50GB unallocated disk space, but the installation keep saying I don't have enough free space. The only option that works is the first one "Use All Space". The rest couldn't find any free disk space.
Any idea/help will be greatly appreciated.

george_toolan · #2 10th July 2012, 11:16 AM

If you have four primary partitions then it doesn't really matter how much space is unallocated. You won't be able to create any more partitions on that drive.

Boot Linux from a LiveCD and post the output of

Code:

fdisk -l

With a standard MBR partition scheme you're only allowed to have four partitions. That's either four primary partitions or three primary partitions and one extended partition. The extended partition can be divided into as many logical partitions as you want.

***bob*** · #3 10th July 2012, 11:40 AM

moved to EOL

***DBelton*** · #4 10th July 2012, 02:40 PM

Also, in addition to what george toolan mentioned above, it appears that it's showing your entire disk as a Windows dynamic disk.

I'm not sure, but that could possibly be an issue installing Fedora.

sqa4life · #5 10th July 2012, 11:57 PM

Thank you.

I deleted the other two partitions and tried again, same issue.

I converted all my partition to Basic and it worked.
I guess Dynamic partition that prevent Fedora from partitioning.