Making Partition

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Penelope

Hello everyone!
I am about to install w2k on one partition and redhat-
linux 9, on the other. In order to create partitions,
I am using a win98 startdisk. I want both of these
partitions to be primary. But the startdisk shows me only
the option of one primary (and ofcourse 1 extended which
can include up to 63 logical)partition through the fdisk.
Is there a way to create 2 primary partions? Thanks in
advance.
 
You don't need a boot floppy if you have Win2k installation CD since it is
bootable. You can create partitions during Win2k setup or from installed
Win2k system.

Al.
 
Alexander Suhovey said:
You don't need a boot floppy if you have Win2k installation CD since
it is bootable. You can create partitions during Win2k setup or from
installed Win2k system.
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You're right, but that doesn't answer the question. W98 Fdisk and the
partitioning routine from w2k can only establish primary partitions of
their own type.
Red Hat usually wants at least two parts, one for swap, one for the
root.
When formatting the first for w2k you should simply leave room for RH9.
When installing RH9 it will recognize this and itself suggest installing
there. Depending on your preferences of boot loader you can then choose
between the ntloader, lilo and grub. Depending on the loader the linux
partitions don't have to be primary ones.
IMO it's not the best idea to choose the os by setting the active flag
in the partition table. You may have a boot menu with ntloader or lilo/
grub or by a distinct boot manager like SBM (SmartBootManager)
http://btmgr.webframe.org/index.php3?body=news.html

HTH
 
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Matthias Tacke said:
You're right, but that doesn't answer the question. W98 Fdisk and the
partitioning routine from w2k can only establish primary partitions of
their own type.
Red Hat usually wants at least two parts, one for swap, one for the
root.
When formatting the first for w2k you should simply leave room for
RH9. When installing RH9 it will recognize this and itself suggest
installing there. Depending on your preferences of boot loader you
can then choose between the ntloader, lilo and grub. Depending on the
loader the linux partitions don't have to be primary ones.
IMO it's not the best idea to choose the os by setting the active flag
in the partition table. You may have a boot menu with ntloader or
lilo/ grub or by a distinct boot manager like SBM (SmartBootManager)
http://btmgr.webframe.org/index.php3?body=news.html

HTH
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You're probably right, Mattias. I was concentrated on the fact that 98'
fdisk can create only one primary partition as I though it was OP's only
issue.
I said "probably" because I'm not sure if partitions are OS-dependent. At
least while you do not format them. When you say "of their own type" did you
mean that they can only format partitions as FAT/NTFS?

Regarding your suggestions - I completely agree with them.

Al.
 
Alexander Suhovey said:
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I said "probably" because I'm not sure if partitions are OS-dependent.
At least while you do not format them. When you say "of their own
type" did you mean that they can only format partitions as FAT/NTFS?
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Fdisk from Dos/w98 can't create foreign(unknown) partition types - it
even can't delete them. It is limited to primary/extended/logic
partitions for FAT12/16/32 formatting.
w2k can create the same types with added ntfs formatting. AFAIK it can
delete all partitions.

Yuu'll get more flexibilty with tools like Partition Magic from Power
Quest (payware), http://www.aefdisk.com/ (shareware) or XFdisk which
includes a boot manager and comes free (GNU PL)
http://www.mecronome.de/xfdisk/index.php

At this site: http://www.fdisk.com/fdisk/ is probaply more information
on fdisking you'd like to read :-)

HTH
 
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