CentOS install problem, can somebody please help?

[Artluo100]

I am installing CentOs/ Blue Quartz on my system and after loading the cd, I get a

"partitioning failed : could not allocate partition"

error and tells me to restart.

What's wrong with my system?

 

[GreNME]

It's pretty literal: the program used to partition and format the drive didn't work.

 

[Artluo100]

what do you mean??

 

[GreNME]

It means that, for some reason, your partitioning didn't take or something went wrong writing to the partition table.

Try partitioning with the command-line or use another distro's known-good program and see if it still doesn't take. If it takes, something might be wrong with your install image. If it doesn't take, something may be wrong with your drive (maybe bad blocks).