possibly a bad error

[Stephen Clower]

Hi Cecil,
  As far as I know, there is only one Fat32 partition on my hard disk. I am wanting to set up a duel-boot system and keep Windows 2000 on the computer so I can use my audio software. I am concerned with placing a boot partition before the main Windows partition, because that could damage the JFW key I have installed on the machine. If I recall, the authorization sets a few bits in actual disk cylinders to true to verify the existence of the authorization. If I can repartition the first 100 or so MB and create a boot partition without messing up my authorization, then that's what I will do. As you said, I'll wait for some confirmation before attempting anything which could possibly wreck the existing partition.
Thanks,
Steve



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On 3/1/2004 at 9:29 AM Whitley CTR Cecil H wrote:

>Hi,
>In your email you said..
>*snip*
>>About two seconds after I hit OK in Disk Druid to tell it to create my
>partitions, I get an >error saying the space was not able to be allocated.
>In some instances, it tells me that it was >unable to create a primary
>partition. Is it absolutely necessary that I use a primary partition >to
>install Linux? A friend told me that logical partitions preformatted to
>EXT2
>would work just >as well.
>*snip*
>First, a hard drive can only contain four (4) primary partitions.  It may
>optionally contain three (3) primary and one extended partition.  If you
>are
>trying to exceed this limit, you would recieve the error you are seeing.
>Are you trying to set up a dual boot system, or are you trying to create
>more than four primary partitions?  Depending on the hardware you have, you
>may need to have at least the /boot partition within the first 4GB of the
>hard drive.  Any other partitions may be defined as "logical" drives within
>an extended partition.  If you use a "/" partition within the first four
>(4)
>GB of your hd, remember to establish partitions and mountpoints for /var,
>/usr and /home.  Optionally I *believe* you can do a /boot at the front of
>your hd and a "/" partiition within the extended partition which will have
>everything else under it.  I would get confirmation of this from others on
>this list before implementing it though, because it's a guess not a fact.
>Regards,
>Cecil
>
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