Prior to making the changes discussed in the replies, I should make sure
the correct harddrive is selected.  The following info is displayed.
sda | 80GB | ATA ...
sdb | ...       | ...
sdc | 80GB | FUJITSU ...

How can I find out if my windows xp C:\partition is sda or sdc?

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 8:16 PM, pete b. <phpete48@gmail.com> wrote:
What I'm doing is installing fedora-10 so I can dual boot either fc-10 or windows-xp.
windows-xp already exists using 26GB of 80GB on the HD.
I go thru a few menus.  Then I get to the partitioning and have problems.

I selected "use free space of selected drives and create default layout".
1 drive is selected and the same drive is chosen to boot from.

The response is:
1. Could not allocate requested partitions. Not enough space left to create
partition for /boot.

2. Have not defined a root partition.

What is going on with this?  Is there a reliable fix?
FYI pehaps I selected the wrong disk (I have two).  Is there a method to find out
the manufacturer of a disk from windows?

thx much,
peter