I am trying to install Red Hat 5.1 on a System Commander 4.0 Deluxe Setup....

2 GB Seagate EIDE hard drive
The installed OSs are Win95 B on the primary active C drive FAT 16
NT Workstation on the Primary F drive NTFS
these two partitions are adjacent to each other followed by a
Extended FAT16 partition containing
two Fat 16 logical drives D and E
This setup is working fine

the remaining 1GB is Free space that I intend to use for a Linux native 83
...around 8-900 meg and a Linux swap 82.....100 meg.

Once I start up the Linux install and begin the partitioning

Using Linux FDISK with the p command I see this

One 300 meg Dos Primary FAT 16 = hda1..Start 1 End 153.......this is my C
drive with SC and Win95b
One Extended Partition 400meg FAT16 = hda2 .Start 309 End 512 ......this is
my Dos Fat16 extended contains 2 logical drives
One 300 meg NTFS = hda3 Start 154 End 308......this is my NT Workstation
NTFS partition
One 100 meg FAT 16 Logical = hda5 Start 309 End 359.......this is my dual
swap partition 95/NT
One 300 meg FAT 16 Logical = hda6 Start 360 End 512........this is a FAT 16
drive shared with 95/NT

When I create a primary native Linux with 800 or 900 megs of the free space
it becomes hda4 and everything sets up OK
hda 4 Start 513 End 900 Blocks 782208 ID 83 Linux Native

I still have 200 megs of free space

I then try to create a 100 meg swap file.....I get a .....No Free sectors
available....message

No matter how small I make the Linux partition or even if I make the swap
file first ..Linux won't let me make a native and a swap partition...or any
other for that matter....

without the swap I can't proceed with the install

What am I doing wrong here ?

Thanks
Mark

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