Re: disk druid - partition error

[Thomas Dodd <ted cypress com>]

Noel Woo wrote:
> 
> device   requested   actual   type
> hda1      4973M       4973M   WIN95 FAT32
> hda2      7444M       7444M    0x0f
> 
> -highlight hda2 and pressed ADD
> 
> mount point /-----------
> size(megs)  600
> growable (*)

Don use growable here. That make the partition
use the rest of the disk, not just the 600M you
want.

> response: /  boot partition too big
> 
> hda:ST3130214, 12419MB w/512KB cache, CHS=1024/255/63
> 
> Partition check:
> hda: hda1 hda2 <hda5 hda6>

What are the sizes of hda5 and hda6 (them logical drives
in hda2, the extended partition)?
Also DD doesn't like Extended partitions other than
type 05, 0F is a Windows9x LBA extended partition (Or something
like that?)


What's on those 2 partitions (D and E in windows)?

Again the problem is /boot is not accessable from BIOS.

Try making a small partion , about 5 MB, with type 0x83
"Linux ext2" with a mount point of "/boot" * FIRST *

Then make a large partition with "/" as the mount point.

If you can delete hda2, hda5, and hda56 do so, it'll
make it easier.

the kernel is on the disk as /boot/vmlinuz and must be
accessable from BIOS. By makig /boot a seperate partition
you can get around that. If DD still has trouble,
try using fdisk instead. Then you can have 3 of the primary
partitions with filesystems and still use one for an
extended partition with logical partitions. DD wont do this
yet. Once you create hda2 as ext2, then DD will let you use
it.

	-Thomas