Ive been trying to TriBoot a system and ive partitioned out WinME and WinXP on fat32 in the same hard drive and now im trying to install Red Hat 8.0 on the same drive still and ive run into a bit of a snag. I choose the auto partitioner and use existing free disk space but it comes back unable to allocate the partitions. I try going back using Disk Druid and get as far as creating two parts of the partition either boot, root, or swap and it will stop and say can not allocate the space for allocation. The Drive is 80 gigs and has 25 partitioned for ME and 25 partitioned for XP which leaves around another 26 to use for redhat that I left unpartitioned and unformatted. If anyone knows how to get around this id appreciate any help offered. Thanks a lot for reading my message.

Hawkster78

Specs:
Gigabyte Mobo
256MB PC2100 Ram
Onboard Sound
ATI 9000 Pro Sapphire
56x CD ROM
Floppy Drive
Western Digital 80 gig HD
25gig Partitioned WinXP C:
25 gig Partitioned WinME D:
25 gig trying to be partitioned for Red Hat 8.0
Siemens Speedstream 10/100 NIC

try using fdisk (under the RHL installation). but i think that the main reason here is that the installer doesn't want to create partitions on a logical partition.

in my experience, you need to have at least the /boot as a primary partition ( u can do this by putting it in the beginning of the drive). it won't hurt, repartition your drive. create partition for /boot first and then install xp and me (or use a partition resizer like pmagic and bootitng). then install linux.

hth

i think it may be complaining because you can only
have 4 entries in the main partition table and you
need to create an extended partition with the free
space on the drive, then make the boot, root and
whatnot there. You can easily boot from a logical
drive, as long as whatever boot manager you use
is in the master boot record, or you can use xp's
boot manager.