On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 11:11:15PM +0530, komal wrote:
>
> I need information about partitions .I have 40gb of harddisk
> with two partition. I have used FIPS to spilt primy dos
> partition.Now I have 8gb of space for Linux. I want to create
> root,swap.home,usr,var,tmp parttiotn.But when i select extened
> partition I am receiving errors like no free sector.
o I seemed to have missed this mail :-(
o When you have two 16/32-bit partitions created under DOS/
Win-9x the first [C:] would be Primary and the next [D:]
extended.
o If you have used FIPS to split D: (extended) then the space
available would be for another logical under the same extended.
For installation of Linux on another newly created primary
partition you would have to delete the whole extended partition
[D:]. Then use Linux fdisk or cfdisk to create the other
primary partitions needed. An IDE disk can take a max of 4
partitions out of which the last may be extended. You can hvae
as many extended logical partitions under it as you want.
o Alternatively, if you have valuable data in D: and want only
a portion of it carved out for Linux, use FIPS to cut out a
chunk. Then use Linux fdisk to create additional Type-83 and 82
partitions (viz swap and ext2) as extended logicals. It would
be possible to install Linux there. Since the Linux portions
would be way down on the hard disk on extended logical
partitions with no primary boot sector, it would be adviseable
to use loadlin under DOS for dual boot.
Bish
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