installling rhel 3.0 fedora2 winxp already present i

[shiva_godav_iiitm]

hi iam unable to install red hat enterprise linux 3.0.i have fedora core 2 and winxp already in my system .the installlation is failing at partitioning / whiile i try to alllocate partitions it says could not allocate as primary partition. and partitioning failed .........................................................................................kindly help................................................................i have q p4 2.8 ghz processor on a mercury intel 865 mother board 80 gb hdd 512 mb ram

[dragoncity99]

How many partitions u have now available?

If u free space partition u allocate for the RHE Linux is available, i would advise u to check if it's and extended partition. If it's and extended partition, u will not be possible to install an os on it. It cant boot.

U can check using diskdruid, or if u have "SystemRescueCD" then u can run "qt_runpart" a tool similar to partition magic.