Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
Hmm... F9 is new to me...
1) I am planning to partition a 750GB drive as follows:
a) /media/vista 50GB ntfs primary
b) /media/w2kpro 50GB ntfs primary
c) /boot 200MB ext3 primary
d) -------------------------------- Extended
i) / 200GB ext3
ii) /media/wapp1 100GB ntfs
iii) /media/fapp1 150GB ext3
2) I downloaded F9 Gnome Live ISO and burned a CD,
booted up and started F9 installation.
a) Selected "Custom Partition"
b) Tried to create "vista" nfts partition but
there is no ntfs selection available in the
'File System Type' dropdown list, all I see
is 'vfat' So, at this point I selected vfat
and continued to partition to 50GB, primary.
c) Same with (b) above, but for w2kpro
d) Created /boot partition - but noticed that there
was a "switch" in the device - /boot became
/dev/sda1 instead of /dev/sda3 as I would have
expected. Why is that? Don't I get to say
exactly what device I want partitioned and in
what order? Ignoring this, I continued anyway,
hoping this will not screw up boot access to
'vista' or 'w2kpro'. So, I continued on.
e) Now, to create the 'Extended partition'? - hmm,
there is no 'Extended' in 'File System Type'
dropdown list - so where is it? What is 'efi'?
"Extended FIle system"?
Up to this point - I don't know what to do. Should I
choose 'Physical Volume (LVM)' instead and use this
pathway instead of the way I am going as planned?
Please advise?
OK, here is what I would do. First of all, I've never done an install
from a LiveCD. Nor have I ever done a Windows VISTA install. (And its
been 7 years since I've done a W3K install.) *BUT*, that said, while
running the Live CD:
1) open a terminal window as root.
2) use fdisk (or your favourite Linux partitioning tool) to create the
partition table you want. fdisk can tell you what the various
partition types are, and is certainly capable of creating the
extended partition.
3) use the fdisk "w" command to write out the partition table to the
disk when you are done creating it.
4) use the various mkfs commands to format the newly made partitions.
I'm not sure if its on the Live CD or not, but my mkfs.ntfs program
comes from the ntfsprogs RPM on F9. So, the means to do what you
what exists in the F9 repo, the question is whether or not its on
the Live CD. If worse comes to worse, you might have to wait until
after you've installed Linux and installed the ntfsprogs RPM to make
the ntfs filesystems.
** WARNING **
Popular opinion is that if you are mixing Windows and Linux (in
dual boot configurations) you should do all of the Windows
installations before doing the Linux ones as Windows like to
re-appropriate the MBR on the disk during the install. The Windows
FDISK program can reserve space for Linux partitions, and it is real
easy to use the Linux fdisk program to change the type of a
partition before you format it.
Thanks-
Dan
Good Luck!
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