Problem with partitioning - PCLunuxOS

[alexham36]

Hi, Mikkh,

I have attempted to install PCLinuxOS to an empty 50GB partition on SATA drive (where Win7 is) and I got an error message - see attachment. In "Windows speak" you remove a primary partition and whoosh-bang, everything has gone! So, I skillfully got out of that and installed onto the old IDE 10GB drive. Can you help at all?

By the way, I tried to get help from PCLinuxOS forum but I kept getting Time-Out messages after which the Konqueror crashed. I am sure there is nothing wrong on my system, because I do not get any such problems with any other website.

Thanks,

Alex

[mikkh]

Strange error message, I've had 3 versions of Windows plus 5 versions of Linux on the same drive before - just for the hell of it, and I'm pretty sure I've installed Linux on logical partitions before. You can have up to 4 primary partitions as long as only one is active/bootable.

The PClinuxOS partition software is a bit naff, even I had to jump through a few hoops to install 'full monty' which I knew wouldn't fit on the old 12 GB partition made by normal PClinuxOS when I told it to use the whole drive. Solutions? Use a bootable partition editor like Gparted live

gparted.org/download.php

Make the 50 GB partition Ext4 in that and you should be good to go.

Konqueror is the very basic built in KDE browser and is only of any real use to an old machine struggling to run Firefox or Chrome. The site may have been temporarily down, they do that sometimes with very little warning

[alexham36]

I had a reply to my question on Hibernate/Suspend from PCLinuxOS forum, which was that I needed twice the size of RAM for the Swap partition, which meant that my old 10GB HD simply was not big enough. So, I took the plunge and installed on SATA HD with 6.3GB for Swap; 7.9GB for / and 7.8GB for /home. It now Hibernates OK, but the HD continue running and I have not yet found the setting to turn them off too. If you have any suggestions for that I would be very grateful.

Thanks,
Alex