On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 04:29:50PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 08:13:31AM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote: > > ... Also in Karsten Self's > > mini-FAQ on partitioning he refers to creating 3 > > primary and 1 logical partitions. Using fdisk I was > > only able to create one primary and one extended > > partition per hard drive. Am I doing something wrong? > > Probably using the fdisk in dos/windoze. That's not inherantly wrong, > you just have to realise it's limitations, and the fact that an > extended partition is not the same as a logical one. You can have up to > 4 primary partitions on a hard drive (although dos fdisk can only handle > one), one of which may be an extended partition. In this extended partition > you may create loads of logical partitions (I think there's a limit of 256 > or something equally high...). > > Either go back and look through fdisk carefully, or wait until you are > installing debian, and use cfdisk (part of the install process) to finish > partitioning.
Yeah, DOS fdisk is unsurprisingly a steaming pile of crap. If you must partition your drive before installing Debian, use something like PQ Magic. It can even format ext2 partitions for you... Personally, I'd make a Debian boot floppy, boot that, and use linux's fdisk... -- Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
