On Fri, 30 May 2008 17:11:47 -0400 Felix Miata <mrmazda@ij.net> wrote:
That's fine as long as you're not a multibooter, but it can make life more difficult than necessary to install your bootloader in the preferred location if you are. http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Prefered_bootloader_options
I doubt I have any disks that I installed anything on that have fewer than 4 primaries.
Putting the boot loader in a primary does make sense. I usually install SuSE as a dual boot with it's predecessor. The bottom line is that the stage1 must be addressable from the MBR. If you are dual booting with Windows, Windows is usually installed in one or 2 primaries. So, if you use Part 1 and 2 for Windows (C and D), Part 3 for /boot, then you generally need Partition 4 for the extended. But, for the most part, Linux file systems can exist very nicely in logical partitions, and these are more flexible than primaries, although LVM is more flexible than using hard partitions. If I were to do a complete reinstall I would use LVM and allocate my backups either to a USB drive or a separate non-LVM drive. -- -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846