Re: Installing debian, dual boot on 1 TB disk?
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On 06.02.2012 19:06, Arief M Utama wrote:
> Hi Mika,
>
> First, thank you for your reply,
>
>
> On 02/07/2012 12:03 AM, Mika Suomalainen wrote: Hi,
>
> I think that I had same problem some time ago. First I shrinked
> Windows partition with gparted on Ubuntu* CD. When I tried to
> create new partition for Debian, it said something like "You have
> too many primary partitions. The maximum of primary partitions is
> 4. You can create multiple partitions by removing one partition and
> creating a new 'extended partition'. I did this and I was able to
> create partition for Debian and swap partition.
>
>> May I know what is the size of your disk?
465.76 GIB
>> My problem is I can't do anything at all to that "free" space,
>> there's nothing I could use to create any type of partition
>> there. Hmm, or there is :-) Maybe I could try fdisk and see how
>> it goes, I totally forgot about this.
I had that problem too. Every time when I tried, it gave that error
message which I said previously. I was able to create partitions from
that free space after I removed the recovery partition and made
extended partition on it's place. To that partition I have been able
to create more.
My partition table in gparted currently looks like this:
Partition Filesystem Table (used, free and flags aren't probably
needed and I am too lazy to write them)
/dev/sda1 ntfs SYSTEM
(This is probably that "Windows-helper" partition, I don't know).
/dev/sda2 ntfs
/dev/sda3 extended
/dev/sda5 linux-swap
/dev/sda6 ext4
unallocated unallocated
/dev/sda4 fat32 HP_TOOLS
unallocated unallocated
>> Thanks for the pointer!
>
>
>> All the best. -arief
>
>
> (*I'm not familiar with text mode install partitioning which
> Debian uses so I used gparted in Ubuntu CD to make sure that I
> won't accidentally remove Windows partition.)
>
> I hope that this helps. On 06.02.2012 18:36, Arief M Utama wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I thought I'm already a veteran user until I discovered I
>>>> know almost nothing about this problem today :-D
>>>>
>>>> Got a problem here, I have a laptop with pre-installed
>>>> windows, the partition scheme is more-or-less like this:
>>>>
>>>> - 100M partition (hidden) - seems like a Windows-helper
>>>> partition (I read something about it, forgotten now) - ~960
>>>> GB Windows partition - ~20GB Recovery partion - ~10M another
>>>> part of recovery partition
>>>>
>>>> When I tried to install debian, What I did was shrinking the
>>>> 960GB partition to ~900GB, then I thought I could have ~60GB
>>>> for linux.
>>>>
>>>> But then it said the free space is unusable, I cant do any
>>>> partitioning on it.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone familiar with this problem? Is this something to do
>>>> about the partition table can't handle large disk size
>>>> issue?
>>>>
>>>> Any help and pointers are appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Please CC me on your replies as I am not subscribed to
>>>> debian-user currently.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks :-)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> All the best. -arief
>>>>
>>>>
>
> -- Mika Suomalainen
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Mika Suomalainen
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