On 2005-05-16, Adam Majer penned: > Franklin Parlamis wrote: > >> i tried to partition my hard drive for a debian woody install. it >> is just south of 80 Gb and IDE (from a Compaq EVO D510 I am >> tranferring from Windows platform). i wanted to go with 6 >> partitions, which would require using an extended type physical >> drive to put the logical drives in. using cfdisk, i made hda1 >> bootable and type 83 (2 Gb), hda2 type 82 (10 Gb). but when i >> tried to make hda3 an extended type (05, i believe) it would not >> let me. any thoughts? my bios is compaq 68602 v2.20. >> > You don't make the extended partition. With cfdisk, you create > either Primary or Logical partitions. This question is asked when > you create a new partition. You can only have one block of logical > partitions. If you try to mix them up too much you might end up with > unusable disk space (until you repartition your drive) >
To follow up on this, If you have access to parted, you may find that it's a friendlier way to partition and format a disk. The help command actually is helpful, and the error messages when it won't let you do something are also pretty clear. -- monique Ask smart questions, get good answers: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
