Re: Partitioning prior to dual boot installation of Debian and Windows ME
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001, Abner Gershon wrote:
> Just to clarify I tried again to use DOS fdisk as
> found on Windows ME StartUp floppy. I may be
> overlooking something but it does not appear possible
> to make more than one primary partition on a single
> physical hard drive with this application.
>
> I have downloaded the floppy disk images of "rescue"
> as well as rest of boot floppy images. I intend to
> repartition using cfdisk.
>
>
I don't think that should be a problem. Make one primary (hda1), then
one extended (hda2) and place all your other logical partitions (hda5
up) in that extended partition. Case in point from an fdisk on a
machine at work:
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1653 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 64 514048+ 6 FAT16
/dev/hda2 65 1378 10554705 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 65 128 514048+ 6 FAT16
/dev/hda6 129 256 1028128+ 6 FAT16
/dev/hda7 257 320 514048+ 6 FAT16
/dev/hda8 321 381 489951 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda9 382 442 489951 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda10 * 443 454 96358+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda11 455 466 96358+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda12 467 588 979933+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda13 589 892 2441848+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda14 893 1074 1461883+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda15 1075 1378 2441848+ 83 Linux
Hope that helps and take care,
Daniel
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Daniel A. Freedman
Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics
Department of Physics
Cornell University
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