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aiki985
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 Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 2:29 am Post subject: Vista partition scheme? |
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Hi,
I'm installing gentoo using the minimal CD and I am in the process of setting up the partitions. I have a Sony Vaio with Windows Vista and want to set up a dual boot with Gentoo. Using Fdisk, I see that I cannot set up the third root partition because I already have 4 partitions:
/dev/sda1 from 1 to 1072 and the System is "unknown
/dev/sda2 which is marked bootable from 1072 to 20524 and System is HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 is my Linux boot partition (which I was not going to mark bootable since we want to boot from sda2?)
/dev/sda4 is m Linux swap partition
I need one more for the root partition. What should I do?
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yther
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Delete sda3 & 4, create an extended partition. Inside that, you should be able to make up to 16 "logical" partitions.
PC hard drives have a hard limit of 4 primary partitions, which we can see you have because they are numbered 1 to 4. Extended would start with /dev/sda5. For example, here is my first hard drive:
| Code: | Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00085ae0
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1245 10000431 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 1246 77825 615128850 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 1246 6344 40957686 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 6345 13694 59038843+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 13695 14690 8000338+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda8 14691 27139 99996561 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 27140 39588 99996561 83 Linux
/dev/sda10 39589 77825 307138671 83 Linux |
Notice how /dev/sda2 occupies all of the space after sda1, and the rest of the partitions are contained within it.
You should be able to do this with cfdisk or possibly gparted. Just make sure it says "Extended" and you should be all set. 
Edit: Oops, you're using the minimal CD, so you won't have gparted. You should be fine with cfdisk; it's easy to use and works well. I don't like gparted anyway, after it messed me up by creating partitions out of order.
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aiki985
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| Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 3:00 am Post subject: RE: vista partition |
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| I understand! Thanks I'll give it a try. |
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