[SLUG] Red Hat Install Problems on Laptop

[Louis Selvon <lselvon@xxxxxxx>]

All:

I am trying to install Red hat Linux 8.0 on Sony's PCG-Z1P Notebook.

However I am having problems creating partitions.

With Disk Druid, from the drive rectangular display, I do not even see the
current NTFS partitions from Windows XP.

Anyway I tried to create a "/boot" partition, and I get an error message:

"Could not allocate requested partitions: partitioning failed: 
Could not allocate partitions as primary partitions" ?

What is the issue here ? 

On my PC I can see the Windows partitions from Disk Druid, and can
successfully create Linux partitions ?

Should I create the recommended "/", "/boot", "/usr" etc ... using partition
magic may be ? But then will the install CDs work and skip partition part of
the install ?

Louis.