Help with install

[brianmay27]

So I cant seem to be able to install fedora 15. I think it is the disk. I have windows 7 already installed (and would like to keep it) It was installed on the end of the hard drive leaving a 100 GB chunk in the center of the drive open and unformated (this may be the problem).

Anyway I used the live cd and tried to format the unformated partition to exf but it gives me this error

Error creating partition: helper exited with exit code 1: In part_add_partition: device_file=/dev/sda, start=105906176, size=104752742400, type=EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
Entering MS-DOS parser (offset=0, size=500107862016)
MSDOS_MAGIC found
found partition type 0xee => protective MBR for GPT
Exiting MS-DOS parser
Entering EFI GPT parser
GPT magic found
partition_entry_lba=2
num_entries=128
size_of_entry=128
Leaving EFI GPT parser
EFI GPT partition table detected
containing partition table scheme = 3
got it
got disk
new partition
added partition start=105905664 size=512
committed to disk
Error doing BLKPG ioctl with BLKPG_ADD_PARTITION for partition 2 of size 105905664 at offset 512 on /dev/sda: Device or resource busy

Do I have to reinstall windows for this to work or is there something I can try to do.

TIA

[SomeDamFool]

Anaconda will format and install F15 to any partition you like, but some have had problems with the live CD. If no solution is found try using the regular install DVD.
Mike

[DBelton]

what is happening is that the partition information is not getting refreshed after it creates the partition. This is a known issue if you try to create a logical partition inside an extended partition on a GUID drive.

create the extended partition, then run

sudo sfdisk -R /dev/

then create the logical partition

(the sfdisk -R forces the kernel to reread the partition table)

Edit:

You can also get around this issue by using Gparted to partition your drive before running the install.

You can download a gparted livecd from here:

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php