On Friday, September 21, 2001 6:56 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [...] I have tried to partition my new 40GB drive using fdisk in DOS, > [...] > With fdisk I can create a primary DOS partition, and a number of further > extended and logical partitions, that, when formatted in DOS produce disk > drives labelled D:, E:, F:, G: etc.
If you use fdisk, only create one primary partition. Do not create any additional partitions from fdisk. It only understands things Microsofty. Leave the rest of the space free. > Using cfdisk, only 2GB of the new disk seems to be available, and I can > create a primary DOS partition quite easily, or a Linux partition, with > extended and logical partitions; however, I don't seem to be able to gain > access to the rest of the diskspace. If your hardware is fairly recent, you should be able to enable large disk support from your bios setup. You should enable logical block support at least, but check your mainboard manual or mfgr website. You may want to post the details of your mainboard and HDD if you can't get it working. Logical partition is a MS-only term AFAIK. You will be creating primary and extended partitions for Linux. The extended partition concept is just a way to work around the limitations of the original PC partition table format. Primary vs. extended doesn't make any real difference to Linux. Just know that if your total number of partitions is greater than 4, you cannot have more than 3 primary partitions (the 4th is used to create the extended partitions). Also, depending on your HW, you might want to create a very small partition for /boot as your first primary partition--just in case your system cannot boot a second partition in the presence of a 10Gb first partition. Take care, -=greg
