Irish, Jon D BAE SYSTEMS wrote:
I just found a note in O'Reilly's Learning Debian book that states cfdisk does not let you create extended partitions. Thus, when the installer got to that point, I Alt + F1'ed to a prompt, and ran the fdisk utility. Everything is now partitioned the way I wanted it, and the install is proceeding. Why is cfdisk included with the install routine if it does not support extended partitions? It seems to me that I am not the only person trying to perform an install with multiple/extended partitions. Thank you everyone for your help, Jon
cfdisk automatically creates an extended partition when you make a logical partition, but only lets you have one extended partition. The only reason for multiple extended partitions is poor planning[if you wanted to and were only running linux on the box you could make every partition a logical partition and the entire hard drive one big extended partition].
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