Re: Setting Up Partitions
Quoting Ian Thomas (ipthomas_77@yahoo.com):
> I have a copy of Debian 2.1 Slink that I am trying
> to install to a second harddrive.
A bit old, that...
> I just recently found out on a website that cfdisk
> cannot create extended partitions. I attempted to do
> this when I was installing by changing the partition
> type to extended, but when it wrote the table it still
> had them listed as linux native.
I don't think that's how cfdisk does it, by changing type.
> This is what I want
> to do..
>
> hdb1 (this is already my freebsd swap partition)
> hdb2 /boot (this will be a primary partition)
So create them first.
> hdb3 (extended partition containing logical slices)
Do nothing here.
> hdb5 /
Create this as a *logical* partition...
> hdb6 /var
> hdb7 /tmp
> hdb8 /home
> hdb9 /usr
... and these too. The extended partition itself won't be
displayed on the cfdisk screen.
> My swap space will go on my third drive. I
> thought about just doing Alt-Ctrl-F2 to get a prompt,
> run fdisk and create the partition table that way,
> then continue with the curses based install. Is that
> correct?
Yes, it doesn't really matter whether you use cfdisk or fdisk or
both to create your partitions.
> Also I have read that linux cannot boot from
> an extended partition, is this true?
I don't think that's true. They may have been talking about the
case where someone wants to keep the DOS MBR which boots the
active partition. It may refuse to accept that a logical
partition can be active.
Cheers,
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