Cfdisk
 

Hi guys

i am trying to install so of the distros that i have, but when i run cfdisk, the logical free space that should be available says unusable, thus making it impossible for me to create a new partitions for the installs. how can i fix this problem? Also one other quick questions, i was looking at dl the debian distros but it seems like i would have to download like 10 cd's is there any other site that i can download from there i would not need that may cd's

Do you have 4 "Primary" partitions? If you wish to use Logical/Extended partitioning, you must leave at least one primary partition available.

Thats the thing i dont i only have 3. sda1 sda3 sda4. this is what my partition table looks like

sda1 Primary NTFS volume set 62915.17
sda5 Logical Linux ReiserFS 12000.69
sda6 Logical Linux swap / Solaris 1998.75
sda7 Logical Linux ReiserFS 39999.54
Logical Free Space 41998.28
sda3 Primary Linux ext3 [/1] 9434.40
sda4 Primary Linux ext3 [/home1] 29059.92
Unusable

The logical free space used to be fedora core 6 but i was getting kernel panic issues so i deleted it. but as you can see i only have 3 primary partitons and im getting unuasble for like 60GB of free space

The free space needs to be in the same place as one of the available partitions. The first free space can be used within sda2, but there is no Logical/Extended partitioning available for the Unusable space.

Let's see the output of "fdisk -l" (lower case ell)