F9: Creating partitions

Daniel B. Thurman dant at cdkkt.com
Sun Jun 29 01:32:52 UTC 2008


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?

Thanks-
Dan




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