Help using old dos partition...

[Jonathan Gift <jgift@wanadoo.fr>]

Hi,

I have the following setup:

/hda1 dos
/hda5 /boot
/hda6 /
/hda7 swap
/hda8 /home

Now I would like to use cfdisk to delete /hda1 and create two
partitions, one for /usr/local and another for /tmp.

Could someone check my steps?

1. Change to init 1
2. Use cfdisk to delete dos partition and create new two/Write/Format
3. All other names now bumped down one, so change lilo root /hda6 to
/hda7
4. Change fstab settings bumping up all one and adding /usr/local and
/tmp
5. Reboot. 
6. Switch to init 1. Make and move over /usr/local and /tmp files

The problem is I never got past stage 5 reboot. It hangs. Where did I go
wrong? When I changed /hda1 to a single linux partition for /usr/local,
everyting went ok. But by splitting it in two and adding another, I get
into trouble.

Help appreciated.

Jonathan

PS A curious thing is when I change /hda1 from dos to linux it goes in
cfdisk as a linux ext2 partition. Everything ok. But when I create /hda1
and the new /hda5 the /hda5 goes in as linux and no ext2 setting no
matter that I followed the same steps...

PPS Instead of everything getting out of wack and bumped down, can't
I split /hda& into /hda1 and /hda2. can I control the naming somehow?

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