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From : Valley Brother 2:5020/400 20 Apr 2002 05:56:04
To : Leschinsky Oleg
Subject : Re: New man in the Linux world has a partitioning problem: adding Linux
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as a fourth partition
Yeah, it worked. Expanded the Extended DOS with Partition Magic and then
created three logical partitions there and it's fine now. I also set the
LBA32 support, and I don't know if that's why LILO is working fine or not. I
just didn't want to try the GRUB. Уж слишком это грубо для мена на данный
момент.
"Leschinsky Oleg" <helge@visti.com> wrote:
> Valley Brother wrote:
> VB> Installing the RedHat 7.2 on a Windows machine....
> VB> I tried to find a quick solution to it, scanning the news archives,
but to
> VB> no avail.
> VB> My situation is pretty corny though:
> VB>
> VB> /dev/hda1 laptop hibernation partition 1-2 16MB
> VB> /dev/hda2 primary dos 3-263 2G
> VB> /dev/hda3 extended dos 264-1793 12G
> VB> /dev/hda5 ntfs (default drive) 264-1793 12G
> VB> Free space 1793-2432
5G
> VB>
> VB> Briefly, I have 2G primary and 12G extended Windows partitions. So now
I'm
> VB> just adding Linux on the remaining 5G, and yet, while I know that I
need to
> VB> create /root, /boot & swap, I can add only one partition. For what I
> VB> understood, one can create only 4 primary partitions on the PC
architecture.
> VB> So what am I supposed to do now, reformat the entire disk? Also, I
> VB> absolutely wasn't able to apprehend the difference between Linux's
primary
> VB> and logical partitions, I just know that I can't create any logical
ones,
> VB> getting the "no free sectors" error. That is even before the next
phase of
> VB> problems with booting from the 1024+ cylinder number.
> VB>
> VB> Any help would be greatly appreciated. I looked in linuxdoc.org, but
> VB> couldn't find any answers there either.
> You should resize your extended partition to fill all free space. Then
> create linux partitions as logical partitions. They (linux partitions)
> will probably be named like hda6, hda7 and so on. To resize partitions
> without dataloss you can use Powerquest PartitionMagic. It never failed
> me. (Backup your data.)
> Don't worry about 1024+ cylinder number, i think LILO knows how to boot
> kernel from beyond this limit.
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