Re: [TCLUG:6306] RH Installation (REALLY RE: fdisk)

[Peter Lukas <peter@math.umn.edu>]

I should have read your table more closely.  It looks like the extended
partition houses the second half of your NT partition.  It may be
possible to create linux partitions inside that partition (although I
doubt it)  In any event, you've got from 256-765 open and 1025-1027
available.

If you do not have any data on hda6 (NT probably calls this "D:"), nuke it
and recreate a 2GB partition starting at 256 and ending at 514 (pretty
sure my math is correct) of type "4 / FAT16".  Next create a linux primary
and linux swap partition from 514 and beyond.

That's probably the only way to do it unless you want to run Linux on top
of FAT.  Again, only try the above if there is no data on hda6 that you
want to keep.  The Linux BootLoader HowTO will tell you how to deal with
drives with cyls > 1024.

Peter Lukas

On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Perry Hoekstra wrote:

> Peter Lukas wrote:
> 
> > These instructions were assuming that the drive was free of other OS
> > partitions.  Since NT is consuming a good chunk of the drive, you're going
> > to need to repartition it with some partitioning software (ie partition
> > magic although I'm not sure how it works for NT).
> > If the NT partition is important to you (you do not want to rebuild it and
> > restore data), you should consider buying another disk for Linux.
> > Otherwise, nuke the NT stuff and start fresh with Linux (oh yeah, read the
> > Linux+NT howto ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/ there
> > may also be a fdisk howto in there, too.).
> >
> 
> Yes, NT is taking up 4GB of an 8.4GB but that still leaves 4.4GB of space.  Are
> you saying I have to repartition the drive because of the 1027 cylinders?
> Neither wiping the drive of NT or getting an additional drive is an option.  I
> had made sure I had a enough space for a Linux boot when I setup the NT OS.
> 
> >
> > >
> > > Looking at the hard disk using fdisk, I have the following (an NT system
> > > already exists on the harddrive)
> > >
> > > Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1027 cylinders
> > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
> > >
> > >    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> > > /tmp/hda1   *         1       255   2048256    6  DOS 16-bit<=32M
> > > /tmp/hda2           256      1024   6176992+   5  Extended
> > > /tmp/hda6           766      1024   2080386    6  DOS 16-bit<=32M
> > >
> > > NT takes up 4GB of the system. I want to put Linux on 3GB of my 4.5GB free
> > > space and dual boot.  I can' t create a primary partition 'n -> p -> 1 -> 1
> > > -> +1200M' because a primary partition already exists.  I take it my 4.5GB
> > > of free space is in /tmp/hda2?  How would I set it up using fdisk?  Am I
> > > going to have LILO problems because I have 1027 cylinders, not 1024?
> > >
> > > Thank you for all your help!
> 
> --
> Perry Hoekstra
> 
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