On 07/16/2010 06:37 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Dan McGhee wrote:
>
>> If I need a
>> logical partition then I need to use another external drive. Ultimately,
>> what about grub? I am completely ignorant about the "new" one.
>>
> Review your terms:
>
> Primary Partition 1 /dev/sda1
> Primary Partition 2 /dev/sda2
> Primary Partition 3 /dev/sda3
> Extended Partition /dev/sda4
> Logical Partition /dev/sda5
> Logical Partition /dev/sda6
>
> I think Linux is limited to 63 partitions...
>
> The only issues is whether your other OSes have consumed all of your
> disk space. They usually do. You will need parted to fix that.
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/html_chapter/parted_1.html
>
Thanks for the help, Bruce. I was "punchy" last night from trying to
troubleshoot. Yes, I had my terms confused. For some reason, I've always
thought that LFS needed to be built on its own *primary* partition. It's
not my other distros that have "sucked up space." It's my partition
management--or lack thereof.
But your suggestions have lead me down a new path. Of course, now that
I've been challenged, I want to complete that LFS SVN build. I'm
thinking that I could do the lates *stable* jhalfs, and use that as my
host system. Like I said before, I've never had any build problems when
using {,B}LFS as my host. If I "get wild enough" maybe I can update the
6.3 to at least a 6.5.
There is, however, one other consideration before I "march off." Is
there anything that *you* want to see from a successful test run of
binutils on my system. If I do a jhalfs and then successfully complete
LFS SVN, then maybe it's safe to say that something from Ubuntu 10.04 is
interfering with the build.
Enough "stream of consciousness." Gotta go learn jhalfs.
Dan
> -- Bruce
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