Alternate CD unable to create partition

[steve.horsley]

Binary package hint: base-installer

Alternate installer is unable to create a new partition to install into.
Using manual partitioning. Here is the existing partition table it shows me:

/dev/sda - 160.0 GB ATA WDC WD1600BJKT-7
#1 primary 238.5 MB fat16
#2 primary 21.0 GB B ntfs
#5 logical 10.5 GB jfs
#6 logical 10.5 GB jfs
#7 logical 5.2 GB swap swap
#8 logical 10.5 GB jfs
   pri/log 10.6 GB FREE SPACE

I was trying to create a partition in the free space at the end, but could not. I tried to fill the space (default) and also tried to create a small (500M) partition both at the start and at the end of the free space. In every case I said I wanted a logical partition. In every case, the partitioner gave an error "Can't have overlapping partitions.".

It was prepared to create a primary partition in the space, but this is not what I wanted.

I rebooted into Karmic and verified with gparted that the free space was indeed inside the extended partition, meaning the extended partition ended at the end of the disk, not at the end of partition #8 with the free space afterwards. I was able to create the logical partitions I wanted inside that free space using gparted from Karmic, without resizing the extended partition.

[steve.horsley (steve-horsley)]

Aargh. copy/paste error typing out the partition table.
Sorry, Herre is the correct partiton table (#8 is 102GB not 10GB).

/dev/sda - 160.0 GB ATA WDC WD1600BJKT-7
#1 primary 238.5 MB fat16
#2 primary 21.0 GB B ntfs
#5 logical 10.5 GB jfs
#6 logical 10.5 GB jfs
#7 logical 5.2 GB F swap swap
#8 logical 102.0 GB jfs
   pri/log 10.6 GB FREE SPACE