fedora dual boot issues

[Allblack]

I am trying to install fedora along windows 2003 and Freebsd but it won't let me install it.

Here is the layout of my drive /dev/hda

/dev/hda1 --> extended
/dev/hda5 --> vfat
/dev/hda2 --> ntfs
/dev/hda3 --> bsd

The rest is free space about 15 gb

I have tried a couple of things. Auto partitioning the free space does not work. It says something about not being able to allocate the partition.

I tried manual partitioning.

100 mb for /boot
756 mb for swap
and the rest for /

Same kind of error appears after I specified /. Also tried reversing the order but it does not work.

I was able to do this with RH9 and windows XP. Any ideas?

Cheers

[Hellmasker]

i would be very suspicous of win2003...

can u run fsck on blank space? im not sure if this would work but a disk problem could cause partitioning to fail.

also try the manual partition thing again but leave like 2 mb unused at the end of the drive.

[Dolda2000]

Switch to VT 2 (Ctrl+Alt+F2) and try using fdisk to partition the drive. Even if it doesn't work, it is likely to yield a more usable error message.
You don't use dynamic drives with Win2k3, right?

[Allblack]

I tried Hellmasker's suggestion but that did not do the trick.

My win2k3 uses the standard basic disk. I will give your suggestion a go.

[Sterling]

I seem to remember somewhere way back in my mind that you can only have a certain number of partitions per drive... I might have made that up, however...

[Hellmasker]

probably true but its more than 4-5, ive got like 12 and it runs fine.

[Sterling]

Upon further research I found that redhat limits the number of partitions to 16, but that doesn´t apply in your case.... sorry...

[andutt]

Have you used any partition utility or program to partition your drive?? Like partition magic or something?? I got really weird problems one time when i had used it....