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need help installing red hat enterprise server 3 with text version of disk druid

Asked by jumprooster in Linux, Red Hat Linux, Linux Distributions

Tags: linux red hat enteprise server 3 advanced centos 3.9 disk druid text partition mount point

Hello,

I need help installing CentOS-3.9 which is the redistribution of Linux Red Hat Enterprise Server 3
formerly know as Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 3.

I already have 2 OSes on my machine. They dual-boot without any problems.
When the machine boots I get the windows vista bootloader with the options to boot Vista or Windows Server 2003.

It's a 320GB internal hard disk drive.

There's 180GB of free space for linux.

I couldn't use the graphical interface to get the disk druid setup because of an unknown monitor probe so I'm using the text interface at the Disk Druid screen.

This is what I see:

Device        Start        End        Size        Type        Mount Point
/dev/sda      
Free Space  1            1              0M         Free Space
sda1             1           192        1500M     ntfs
Free Space  192       192           0M        Free Space
sda2             192       12355      95414M   ntfs
sda3             12356    13630     10001M   ntfs
sda4             13631     19457    45708M   ntfs
Free Space   19458   43778     190774M   Free Space

i want to add a 5GB root partition on the 190774M free space.

I have the options New Edit Delete so im trying new

this is what I see on the screen

Mount Point (i put "/" )
file system type
choice of ext2 or ext3 (default) (i leave it on ext3)
physical volume (LVM)
software RAID
swap
vfat

Allowable Drives: sda
Size (MB) I enter 5120 (for 5GB)

check:
Fixed Size
Fill maximum size of (MB) with option to enter an amount starting with 1
Fill all available space ( i check this one)

Force to be a primary partition ( i check this)

i get the message "could not allocate requested partitions: Partitions failed: could not allocate partitions as primary partitions

i want to be able to install linux and have it appear in the boot list when the machine starts along with the other 2 OS ( i think i can do this with my current boot loader on vista bcp but wouldn't mind using grub or LILO)

I'm new to this so im not sure what to do.
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