Insatlling arch partition problem?

[Womble]

Trying to install arch on a 25gb partition I made in vista using the my computer-manage section.

Thing is, I get to setup and try to manually partition my drives and only my entire hard drive is visable and I dont want to lose my vista stuff. Even when I select tht I get:

Bad primary partition 1: partition ends in the final partial cylinder

Any ideas?

 

[tntcoder]

How did you resize the drive in vista? You say you made a 25gb partition, what I would suggest doing is make that 25gb 'unpartitioned space', then when you get to the arch prompt (before typing /arch/setup), I find it easiest to make the partitions here, before the gui installer.

So run: fdisk -l, which will give you the partition list for all your drives, then identify the drive that contains the unpartitioned space eg /dev/sda then its easiest IMO to run "cfdisk /dev/sda" where you can create your partition layout from the free space, probably a partition of type swap, and type linux any any others you want for /home etc. Dont worry about file systems at this point, that can be done in the installer.

I find the above better than using the partitioner in the setup because you have more control over whats going on, granted its a bit more complex but once you have done it once it will make a lot more sense.

Hope thats some help.
Jack