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[Markku Mustonen]

Hello!

 

My object is to install Spectra Linux to my brand-new computer. Operating system is Windows XP Home Edition and file system FAT32.  Hard disc is Maxtor 4R080L0 (80GB) with two partitions: C 74,34 gigas (cluster size 32 kb) and D about 2 gigas (for Linux). I will reserve for Linux 6 GBs in all.

I tried first of all to arrange more space for Linux by shrinking C with parted, but I got an error message:

 

The FATs aren't big enough to describe all clusters! Each FAT is 19032 sectors. There are 2436514 clusters, which would require each FAT to be 19036 sectors.

 

Print-command returned:

Minor           Start                End                Type                File system                Flags

1                0.031                76159.709        primary            FAT                            boot, lba

2            76159.709            78159.990        extended                                            lba

5            76159.709            78159.990        logical                FAT                          lba

 

My shrinking command was  resize 1  0.031  72000.

 

I don't understand what the error message means. How can I proceed? Please, help me!

 

 

Markku Mustonen

 

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