| Hi,
I too got the same message. When i checked on it, it seemed like, when it is not able to write to the partition u selected, then it gives such message Or when the partition has some other linux installation present.
In my case, it was RED HAT linux 8.0 was installed on already existing linux partition.
What i did was,
using cfdisk
( a utility which gives a menu driven GUI)
[u can also use this if u type "cfdisk" at prompt, during yoper installation],
i deleted ( "`D`elete" option in cfdisk) my old linux partitions which was /dev/hda3 (linux home, filesystem type 0x82 ) and /dev/hda4 (linux swap partition , filesystem type 0x85) , which gave me free space of 3664.64
Then, i again, i created 2 partitions for Linux home and Linux swap of original sizes ( i.e. partition sizes of deleted partitions).
And selected "`W`rite" in cfdisk.
This wrote the partition tables, it also gave warning, that if i had changed DOS6.0 partition, then there might be problem.
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After this, i went to prompt ( once it didn't brought me to prompt, so i pressed cancel on the screen seen, it brought me to prompt, by aborting the process), and typed "yoper" to start the process again.
But by the changes made, as above, this time yoper installation was complete without any problem. |