tri boot, fun with partioning, getting swap to NOT take up a primary partition
ok i got my computer here
pentium 4 2.5ghz 1 gig of ram 80gig hdd (75gig) nvidia Geforce 6200 256vram ive set up my partion table as such: XP-ntfs {12gig} UbuntuStudio8.4.1-Ext3 {12gig} Swap{2gig} Fat32{55gig} grub is installed and ubuntu is set as my default i would like to ad a 3rd os to my boot sequence i was thinking a portage system maybe gentoo but im probly gunna be lazy and use saybayon(almost gentoo) i already have a 3.5 dvd burnt the problem im having is that my swap takes up a primary partition and apparently u can only have 4 on one hdd (wish somebody would of told me) you know when u learn somthing by your self sometimes you find holes in your knowledge i was playing with my partion editor (gnome) but i just got everything working so nice i really dont want to fuck it up just cause i got greedy i know it has something to do with an extended/logical partition but i just never learned that (wish i would of) so im asking somebody to enlighten me please |
You are right or they are, you can only make four primary partitions per hd. If you need another partition you will have to do some resizing to one or more of your primary partitions to make a extended partition. Then you can create your logical partitions in the extended partition. Remember to backup everything you want to save before resizing those partitions.
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Following on from what Larry said. Delete that fat32 partition. Then your Sabayon installer should enable you to make a 13 GB logical partition to install to, then create a 42 GB fat32 logical partition if needed.
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ok so logical goes inside extended i can do that with the swap
is there a speed difference from primary-extended/logical? would it boost the speed of my fat32 partition by changing it to extended/logical? by changing both i could enable a quad boot... what would be a good 4th os? considering i already have a gaming os (XP) a development os (ubuntu) and a pretty/source based os (saybyon)-{gotta love beryl+gentoo} would debian work as a better development os (asuming i was developing games) speaking of which, what is the best combination of software for freeware game development i was thinking debian because it probly has better susport for progams like GCC and k3d the programs im using for ubuntu are k3d=animation (great gui, i hated blenders gui..) geany=C++ compiler i have not found a sound builder i liked yet (but i have not looked) any suggestions? gimp=photo editing/background images (think ff7) dose gimp support wrapping images to models? (think textures or skins) i have not found/looked for a movie builder(to develop cgi movies/ cutsceans) any suggestions? BTW: best linux forum i have found to date (i get answers next day rather then next week)- and i hate how every new site i go to calls me a noob (in some way shape or form) for the first week im there ohh well, just one of those things u gotta prove to people, befor they belive u thanks for posting :) |
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[QUOTE=johnsfine;3286403]If you have an extended (meaning if you have any logical partitions) then you can only have three primary partitions. If you have no logical partitions, you can have four primary.
so i need swap and my fat32 partitions to become extended/logical befor i can make a 3rd primary saybyon partation why dose making a extended/logical take away one of my primarry partitions? dose every one of my extended partitions take away one primary partition? so swap and fat32 needs to be under the same extended partition but under the different logical partitions can i still set disk labels under logical? i dont like remembering which partition dose what . i much perfer having names for each partition linux will boot from a logical partition but not windows? interesting keymap={}priimary []logical <>extended {XP} {ubuntu} <[swap] [fat32]> {saybyon} dose grub need its own place to call home? i have alwayes told it to save its self to the master boot record any problems with this? one swap partition can be used on multible linux os's right? i dont need a 2nd swap?...right? guess i wont get a quad boot ohhh well tri boot is geeky enough i guess... thanks and its verry nice to meet all of you :) |
An extended partition counts as a primary, but you can have a few (how many?) logical partitions within the extended one. So you could quad boot, or multiboot any number providing you had the space. Yes, a swap partition can be shared.
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its more along the lines im leaving the first two primary because i have important data there
and i dont feel like reinstalling them and finding all my shit again why dose saybyon need to be primary? its more for me then it is the computer, so i rember what dose what now that i know all this useful information, i know i can quad boot but i wouldnt have anything to put there i was hoping some one would give me a good suggestion (see earlier post) well im off to build my tri-boot |
sabayon installed in the correct place (now i just half to configure it)
but grub isnt loading ubuntu how dose one fix this? answer: Supergrubdisk awesome tool http://www.supergrubdisk.org/ for some reason i have 2 instances of grub the one installed with ubuntu and the one installed with sabayon they seem to be fighting for supremiacy the only way i can choose is if i insert my super grub disk and chose which linux i want...weird Note: Sabayon is HUGE!!!i ether gotta give it more space or kill it |
You have all the Grub files in Ubuntu and Saboyan but only one of them is in the mbr, only one can be. That's the stage1 file of Grub. If you are booting from Saboyan, the /boot/grub/menu.lst file for Saboyan needs a corect entry for Ubuntu. If you are booting from Ubuntu, it's /boot/grub/menu.lst needs a correct for Saboyan. Since you installed Saboyan last, I assume it's stage1 is in the mbr but, I'm only guessing. You can get the correct entries for Ubuntu to put in Saboyan by booting Ubuntu and copying it's entry in menu.lst to the Saboyan menu.lst.
Don't know your disk structure or menu.lst entries so it's not possible to be more specific. |
i ran out of room on my hdd for the 3rd operating system
then a few days later everything crashed that same day i discovered Ubuntu SE (Satanic Edition) it gave me none of the usuall issues ubuntu did and it ran compez better then sabayon so i left it and have been happy with it but thanks for all the usefull info, i did use your advice btw i turned my swap and fat32 partitions into one extended-logical-logical partition and distributed the old sabayon space to ubuntu and XP everything is happyer that i got rid of sabayon once i get a bigger hdd i will experiment again untill then good luck to all Note: dont close the thread someone may need this info sooner or later and it might be me :) |
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