Re: [SLUG] partitioning for Linux and XP

From: Chris Mathey (slug@mathey.org)
Date: Sat Apr 11 2009 - 12:24:27 EDT


Eben King wrote:
> I got a 312 GiB (marketed as "320 GB") SATA drive and a USB case. My
> aim is to use it as a bootable backup for my 78 GiB / 80 GB internal
> drive, and also to hold XP. To that end, I partitioned it as follows:
>
> partition mount point size
> 1 / backup 15.5 GiB
> 2 swap 2.3 GiB
> 3 /usr backup 4.2 GiB
> 4 extended 276.9 GiB (eg the rest of the disk)
> 5 /home backup way too big ... I'll deal with that
> 6 XP 49.9 GiB
> (more unpartitioned space)
>
> So the XP installer complains there's no XP-compatible partition
> available, but it won't say what it wants. Good design, folks.
> Anyone know what it wants? I tried making it "bootable" and also
> setting the same flag for partition 6, no go. I deleted and recreated
> the partition using XP's own utility, no dice. Does it need to be
> primary? The first, $DEITY forbid? Can I make it like it wants it,
> then use gparted to move it to where I want it?
>
> And fdisk complains for partitions 1-4 that "Partition N does not end
> on cylinder boundary.". I guess that for each of those, I need to
> note what cylinder it ends on now, delete then remake it so it ends on
> a cylinder boundary. Unless there's a way to clean it up
> non-destructively?
>
Basically you can't install XP on a non primary partition. I believe you
already know you can only do 4 primaries on one disk (logical beyond that).
 Possible workaround? :
http://www.sousuke.org/wiki/Installing_Windows_on_a_logical_partition

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