hi, hopefully someone could help me...

i have a hard drive that has 1 primary partition and 1 extended
partition for my windows. now, i'm trying to install linux.
when i get to "disk partitioning setup", i select "automatically
partition". but linux gave me an error.
so i use "manually partition with disk gruid" and partition /, /boot,
and swap without check on "force to be primary partition". it gave me
an error on the last partition. i think it's because 1 hard drive can
only have 4 primary partitions.

my question is:
how can i create an extended partition in disk gruid????
or how do i solve this problem

thanks for the help

David Kuo wrote:
> hi, hopefully someone could help me...
>
> i have a hard drive that has 1 primary partition and 1 extended
> partition for my windows. now, i'm trying to install linux.
> when i get to "disk partitioning setup", i select "automatically
> partition". but linux gave me an error.
> so i use "manually partition with disk gruid" and partition /, /boot,
> and swap without check on "force to be primary partition". it gave me
> an error on the last partition. i think it's because 1 hard drive can
> only have 4 primary partitions.
>
> my question is:
> how can i create an extended partition in disk gruid????
> or how do i solve this problem

First you should have made some free disk space for linux to
install into. Linux won't damage your windows partition unless
you tell it to which is probably what the error you got. But if
you used "Disk Druid" to repartition the drive then you could
have wiped out your windows partition.

A couple of things to remember when posting.
Mention which distro and version.
Any error messages that you get, not just "linux gave me an error".
And if it is hardware related what hardware make and model.

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> i have a hard drive that has 1 primary partition and 1 extended
> partition for my windows. now, i'm trying to install linux. when i get

Where is the free space? inside the extended partition?

> to "disk partitioning setup", i select "automatically partition". but
> linux gave me an error.

What error

> so i use "manually partition with disk gruid"
> and partition /, /boot, and swap without check on "force to be primary

Is boot required? how old is your machine? less then 5 years? then don't
bother. swap is not required either.(although I recommend it) You can
always create a swap file after the installation is done.

> partition". it gave me an error on the last partition. i think it's
> because 1 hard drive can only have 4 primary partitions.

And only one can be an extended partition

> my question is:
> how can i create an extended partition in disk gruid???? or how do i
> solve this problem

Insert all free space into the extended partition. Use Partition Magic
(or perhaps parted) to do this.

Eric

David <thunderbolt01@netscape.net> wrote in message news:<UF_lb.12420$Fm2.8201@attbi_s04>...
> David Kuo wrote:
> > hi, hopefully someone could help me...
> >
> > i have a hard drive that has 1 primary partition and 1 extended
> > partition for my windows. now, i'm trying to install linux.
> > when i get to "disk partitioning setup", i select "automatically
> > partition". but linux gave me an error.
> > so i use "manually partition with disk gruid" and partition /, /boot,
> > and swap without check on "force to be primary partition". it gave me
> > an error on the last partition. i think it's because 1 hard drive can
> > only have 4 primary partitions.
> >
> > my question is:
> > how can i create an extended partition in disk gruid????
> > or how do i solve this problem
>
> First you should have made some free disk space for linux to
> install into. Linux won't damage your windows partition unless
> you tell it to which is probably what the error you got. But if
> you used "Disk Druid" to repartition the drive then you could
> have wiped out your windows partition.
>
> A couple of things to remember when posting.
> Mention which distro and version.
> Any error messages that you get, not just "linux gave me an error".
> And if it is hardware related what hardware make and model.

hi, i have enough space for linux. here is my partition

hda1 - dos primary 2 GB
hda2 - dos extend 8 GB
| hda5 - dos logical 4 GB
| hda6 - dos logical 4 GB
free - 10 GB
total 20 GB

i'm trying to install redhat linux 9. if i could partition the free
10 GB into 1 primary (for /) and 1 extend (for /boot, and swap) then
i'm in good shape. but i don't know how to create an extended
partition in DISK GRUID. please help... thanks.

David Kuo wrote:
>
> hi, i have enough space for linux. here is my partition
>
> hda1 - dos primary 2 GB
> hda2 - dos extend 8 GB
> | hda5 - dos logical 4 GB
> | hda6 - dos logical 4 GB
> free - 10 GB
> total 20 GB
>
> i'm trying to install redhat linux 9. if i could partition the free
> 10 GB into 1 primary (for /) and 1 extend (for /boot, and swap) then
> i'm in good shape. but i don't know how to create an extended
> partition in DISK GRUID. please help... thanks.

On the newer distro's you don't have to separate a /boot
partition. That was an old remedy to solve the 1024 cylinder
limit of the BIOS.
I would keep it fairly simple maybe something like this.

I think Disk Druid makes the extended partition when you make a
logical partition. But things have been known to change and I
haven't used redhat since 7.3 came out.

Maybe 4 GB for "/" root which is fairly large unless you are
going to try and install everything included with the distro.

And a swap partition depending on physical memory the system has.
I use a 1GB swap on a system with 2GB physical memory and swap is
rarely used and when it does swap it's usually less than 200MB. I
have another system that has 192MB physical memory and a 256MB
swap and don't have any problems with it and swap still isn't
used all that much.

I would separate /home to it's own partition since this is where
all users personal files will be stored. With /home on it's own
partition if you need to do a re-install for some reason, or
decide to upgrade it makes it easier.

Here is the output of "df" on this system.
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 3.8G 1.7G 2.2G 44% /
/dev/sda6 2.3G 169M 2.1G 8% /home
/dev/sda7 28G 15G 13G 55% /home/ftp

As you can see the "/" partition is rather large for what I have
installed and yet RedHat can take around 6GB if you install
everything.

BTW "/" is the only primary partition in the "df" clip above.

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On 24 Oct 2003 11:55:22 -0700, David Kuo
<cyberdave@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> hi, i have enough space for linux. here is my partition
>
> hda1 - dos primary 2 GB
> hda2 - dos extend 8 GB
> | hda5 - dos logical 4 GB
> | hda6 - dos logical 4 GB
> free - 10 GB
> total 20 GB
>
> i'm trying to install redhat linux 9. if i could partition the free
> 10 GB into 1 primary (for /) and 1 extend (for /boot, and swap) then
> i'm in good shape. but i don't know how to create an extended
> partition in DISK GRUID. please help... thanks.

You already have an extended partition, and you should only have one per
drive. You can make the free space into a primary partition, or enlarge
your extended partition (you may need parted for that, I'm not familiar
with Disk Druid).


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Bill Marcum <bmarcum@iglou.com> wrote in message news:<ntuo61-ka3.ln1@don.localnet>...
> On 24 Oct 2003 11:55:22 -0700, David Kuo
> <cyberdave@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >
> > hi, i have enough space for linux. here is my partition
> >
> > hda1 - dos primary 2 GB
> > hda2 - dos extend 8 GB
> > | hda5 - dos logical 4 GB
> > | hda6 - dos logical 4 GB
> > free - 10 GB
> > total 20 GB
> >
> > i'm trying to install redhat linux 9. if i could partition the free
> > 10 GB into 1 primary (for /) and 1 extend (for /boot, and swap) then
> > i'm in good shape. but i don't know how to create an extended
> > partition in DISK GRUID. please help... thanks.
>
> You already have an extended partition, and you should only have one per
> drive. You can make the free space into a primary partition, or enlarge
> your extended partition (you may need parted for that, I'm not familiar
> with Disk Druid).

thank you all for the info. after using "parted" to enlarge my
extended partition, the problem is solved.