Hi Cecil, As far as I know, there is only one Fat32 partition on my hard disk. I am wanting to set up a duel-boot system and keep Windows 2000 on the computer so I can use my audio software. I am concerned with placing a boot partition before the main Windows partition, because that could damage the JFW key I have installed on the machine. If I recall, the authorization sets a few bits in actual disk cylinders to true to verify the existence of the authorization. If I can repartition the first 100 or so MB and create a boot partition without messing up my authorization, then that's what I will do. As you said, I'll wait for some confirmation before attempting anything which could possibly wreck the existing partition. Thanks, Steve *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 3/1/2004 at 9:29 AM Whitley CTR Cecil H wrote: >Hi, >In your email you said.. >*snip* >>About two seconds after I hit OK in Disk Druid to tell it to create my >partitions, I get an >error saying the space was not able to be allocated. >In some instances, it tells me that it was >unable to create a primary >partition. Is it absolutely necessary that I use a primary partition >to >install Linux? A friend told me that logical partitions preformatted to >EXT2 >would work just >as well. >*snip* >First, a hard drive can only contain four (4) primary partitions. It may >optionally contain three (3) primary and one extended partition. If you >are >trying to exceed this limit, you would recieve the error you are seeing. >Are you trying to set up a dual boot system, or are you trying to create >more than four primary partitions? Depending on the hardware you have, you >may need to have at least the /boot partition within the first 4GB of the >hard drive. Any other partitions may be defined as "logical" drives within >an extended partition. If you use a "/" partition within the first four >(4) >GB of your hd, remember to establish partitions and mountpoints for /var, >/usr and /home. Optionally I *believe* you can do a /boot at the front of >your hd and a "/" partiition within the extended partition which will have >everything else under it. I would get confirmation of this from others on >this list before implementing it though, because it's a guess not a fact. >Regards, >Cecil > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup Stephen Clower, that guy from the south. You can reach me by any of the following: E-Mail: steve at steve-audio.net MSN: steve at steve-audio.net AIM: AudioRabbit03 You can also check out my little home on the web by visiting http://www.steve-audio.net
