Re: partman extended partition bug
--- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 12:53:46PM -0800, John
> Philips wrote:
> > I'm having trouble automating my Debian installs
> using
> > preseed and partman. It always creates an
> extended
> > partition, even though I don't want it to. I only
> > want logical partitions.
>
> It is not possible to create a logical partition on
> a PC partition table
> without an extended partition to contain it.
>
> Did you mean "It always creates a logical partition
> ... I only want
> primary partitions"?
Yes, I meant to say 'primary' instead of 'logical'. I
want to have only primary partitions, no extended
ones.
My configuration has 3 partitions:
/boot
swap
/
One extended partition is always created, exactly as
described in the bug report. I want all 3 to be primary.
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