Cent OS 5.3 Partitioning Error

[sweetorangepie]

Hi,

I'm trying to install Cent OS 5.3 on VBox for the first time and I'm getting the error: Could not allocate requested partitions: partitioning failed: Not enough space left to create partition for. pres ok to reboot your system. I have installed CentOS 5.3 on VMware recently and had the same problem and it turns out its a bug or something in CentOS and if you change the hard disk type from SCSI to IDE it works, which it does. I'm having the same trouble on VBox as you can tell and was wondering if anyone knew how to resolve this. Looking at the hard disk it looks like its already set to IDE.

Any Ideas?

Thanks!

[Perryg]

I installed CentOS 5.3 without issue.
You need to post the guest settings (exactly and all of them).
Drive space of the Host. and memory.
Also your profile reflects that you are using the OSE version and have Vista as host. Is this correct, or do you have the PUEL version that you download from VirtualBox?

[sweetorangepie]

Sorry, yeah i do have PURL, selected the wrong one.
Right Guest settings are:
Name: sipX
OS: Linux
Version: Red Hat 32bit
Base Memory: 256mb
Video Memory: 12mb with 3d acceleration
Hard Disks:
Additional Controller: SATA
Attachments:
sipX.vdi(NORMAL, 8.00GB) SATA port 0
CD/DVD_ROM:
Mount: ISO
Network: NAT
Thats about it for guest,
Host is:
Core 2 Quad 2.4Ghz, 4GB ram and hard disk where its being installed has 222GB free.

Thanks for the help!

[Perryg]

Take the check mark out of enable SATA.
See screen shot of working OS

CentOS.jpg (30.02 KiB) Viewed 6135 times

[sweetorangepie]

Changed that, still get the same error, my IDE Controller Type is set to PIIX4 like yours although my settings look diffrent to yours, should I try upgrading my edition of Vbox? If i do will I have to make my virtual machines again or will it remember them?

[Perryg]

Changed that, still get the same error, my IDE Controller Type is set to PIIX4 like yours although my settings look diffrent to yours, should I try upgrading my edition of Vbox? If i do will I have to make my virtual machines again or will it remember them?

Well those decisions are up to you. I know that I keep up-to-date and do not have many problems.
If you upgrade you should not loose your VMs but it may be that you need to install CentOS with the right settings to start with. I have not tried to change them after the fact.
Either way keep the one you have and try installing a new copy as well. Just name it something different. Then see how it goes.

[sweetorangepie]

Right, installed latest virtual box, made a new virtual machine with all new virtual disk image, still the same error, any other ideas or is it just never going to work

Thanks for all the help!

[Perryg]

I have no idea. As you can see I have no problem installing it.
The only difference that I can see looking at your info posted earlier is I used Debian and you selected red hat.
Other than that I have no more ideas at this point.
I will try to see if I can find some time in the next few days to re-install again and see what happens.

[sweetorangepie]

Cheers for that, I might give it a go as debian then, I thought that was only for your reference so you could see what os it is easily.

[bigNasty]

I also wished to add a short response to others who are facing this error:
Exact same problem. With the exact same partitioning error.
Installing Strata Guard Lite as a .iso file.
With the Guest system set in nearly the exact same configuration as the guy who started this thread.
I am doing this with a new Core i7 with multiple Terabyte drives, and 12gigs of ram.
This appears to be concerning the linux guest kernel.
Following the kind gentleman's advice listed on the above screen as a suggested work around. And .......Bam!!.....it works.
So give it a try...!
And thank you very much for the detailed advice
....(side_bar)....the screen shot shown is not the current version of the Virtual box. On version 3.2.1....Delete the sata controler completley ...as soon as it is gone click on the little green plus button which is now the only one and it will add a IDE drive controller in the same column where you see the IDE CD/DVD controler currently.