partition help

synaptical · 06-30-2004, 05:39 PM

i was trying to install another distro on my hard drive, but it wouldn't mount the partition to install because it was logical. here is the setup:

part1 - primary - slack install
part2 - primary - /home
part3 - primary - swap
part5 - logical - storage
part6 - logical - free space

i had to move my storage into /home, then delete the 2 last partitions and make one 20GB primary partition for arch, which i don't really want to do permanently (this is just temporary, so i can check out arch

).

if the root partition has to be primary -- and apaprently the swap does, too -- how in the world do you install more than 3 distros on a hard drive? i figure i must be doing something wrong, because that just doesn't seem right to me. any help appreciated.

Tinkster · 06-30-2004, 06:24 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by synaptical
if the root partition has to be primary -- and apaprently the swap does, too

Who said that? :)

My root and swap are hda7 and hda6 ;)

Code:

fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 20.0 GB, 20003880960 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2584 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1         731     5526328+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2   *        2386        2583     1496880   1c  Hidden W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda4             732        2385    12504240    5  Extended
/dev/hda5             732         736       37768+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6             737         806      529168+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda7             807        1084     2101648+  83  Linux
/dev/hda8            1085        2385     9835528+  83  Linux

Cheers,
Tink

synaptical · 06-30-2004, 06:53 PM

the arch installer said it.

it wouldn't continue when either the swap or the root partition were logical.

okay, so there goes another distro into the dumpster.

Next!