Easy partitioning question

[655321]

Okay, I was just about to repartition my 2nd HDD with Debian's partitioning software with a /, /home, /usr, /tmp, /var, and a swap partition so I can put debian on it.

My question is, which ones of these do I make primary, and which ones do I make logical? And also bootable? I'm thinking you just make / primary and bootable, and then the rest logical, but I'm probably totally wrong.

Thanks for the help,
Matt

[demian]

AFAIK it doesn't matter at all. I don't have a bootable flag set on any of my (28!!) linux partitions and it works just fine with lilo. Make sure your / partition is below the 1023rd cylinder 'cause debian 2.2r3 still uses a lilo version that can't cope with booting from the 1024th cylinder and above, I guess.

[655321]

Okay, thanks a lot.

I noticed the lilo problem, I was going to just install on my main HDD, but It wouldn't let me because of the 1024 cylinder problem. You would think that they would have a new enough version of lilo... but oh well, no big deal I guess.

Thanks again,
Matt

[ 01 June 2001: Message edited by: 655321 ]

[slapNUT]

I use LILO-21.6-1 and it has no problem with a 30Gig drive. LILO is up past 21.7 now I think. Also the primary/logical thing probably doesnt matter but I would make /, /home, /usr & /var primary and /tmp & swap logical.