[SuSE Linux] YaST hard drive partition
I have installed suse 5.3 for the second time and am still frustrated. I came to Linux to get away from a bunch of programmers in Redmond, WA. dictating how my machine is configured and what do I find? YaST will only allow me to partition four (4) primary partitions; no extended partitions, no logical drives. I'm pissed! What gives?? Is it all programmers goal in life to dictate how other people's investment in hardware conform to the programmers idea of how a machine should be laid out? Joe Ryan - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
Check out partiton magic, or one of the several clones. Joe Ryan wrote:
I have installed suse 5.3 for the second time and am still frustrated. I came to Linux to get away from a bunch of programmers in Redmond, WA. dictating how my machine is configured and what do I find? YaST will only allow me to partition four (4) primary partitions; no extended partitions, no logical drives. I'm pissed! What gives?? Is it all programmers goal in life to dictate how other people's investment in hardware conform to the programmers idea of how a machine should be laid out?
Joe Ryan
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You can in fact have more than 4 partitions on any HDD Yes YAST does !! allow you to do this. fdisk allows you to do this....also. You have to create an extended partiton first( This takes one primary partition space),then you create the logical drives inside the extended partition. per HDD.......... upto 4 primary partitions or upto 3 primary partitions and 1 extended (logicals inside). -- Myfish. Email myfish@dial.pipex.com 0 0 o `---' - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
On 24 Nov, myfish@dial.pipex.com wrote:
You can in fact have more than 4 partitions on any HDD Yes YAST does !! allow you to do this. fdisk allows you to do this....also. You have to create an extended partiton first( This takes one primary partition space),then you create the logical drives inside the extended partition. per HDD.......... upto 4 primary partitions or upto 3 primary partitions and 1 extended (logicals inside).
-- Myfish. Email myfish@dial.pipex.com
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You can have a combination of 3 primaries and a logical/extended made up of logicals inside which totals 4. How can you have 4 primaries and add more though? I do not think that the current hardware model allows this. Some boot managers take a primary like the OS/2 boot manager. One of the 4 may have more logical partitions; but that is still only 4 primaries. Right? -- Michael Perry mperry@basin.com ------------------ - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
Hi, On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Joe Ryan wrote:
I have installed suse 5.3 for the second time and am still frustrated. I came to Linux to get away from a bunch of programmers in Redmond, WA. dictating how my machine is configured and what do I find? YaST will only allow me to partition four (4) primary partitions; no extended partitions, no logical drives. I'm pissed! What gives?? Is it all programmers goal in life to dictate how other people's investment in hardware conform to the programmers idea of how a machine should be laid out?
did you consider using fdisk? - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
Joe Ryan wrote:
I have installed suse 5.3 for the second time and am still frustrated. I came to Linux to get away from a bunch of programmers in Redmond, WA. dictating how my machine is configured and what do I find? YaST will only allow me to partition four (4) primary partitions; no extended partitions, no logical drives. I'm pissed! What gives?? Is it all programmers goal in life to dictate how other people's investment in hardware conform to the programmers idea of how a machine should be laid out?
I very seldom have used Yast for doing the partitioning of drives. I know that the linux fdisk will let you make extended partitons and logical drives. You could make a boot and root floppy, such as the Suse boot and rescue floppies. Then from the rescue disk command line , run fdisk. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
Joe: I understand your "pain" such as it were :) I installed 5.3 some time ago but I don't recall the disk partitioning part of the process and it may be that YaST gets a little heavy handed in it's approach but did you look for an alternative? I seem to recall seeing a button that you can press to choose fdisk partitioning. If this is so, that'll be great but if not, the folks at SuSE should definitely have that choice installed! Good luck! Cheers, -- Frederic Woodbridge Network Janitor Anexis, Inc. (954) 964-2772 - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Frederic Woodbridge wrote:
I installed 5.3 some time ago but I don't recall the disk partitioning part of the process and it may be that YaST gets a little heavy handed in it's approach but did you look for an alternative? I seem to recall seeing a button that you can press to choose fdisk partitioning. If this is so, that'll be great but if not, the folks at SuSE should definitely have that choice installed! Good luck!
YaST prompts you to select the type of partition when you ask it to create a new partition, i.e. primary, extended or a logical drive. If it doesn't, it means that the disk is already fully partitioned, i.e. 4 primary partitions and you will have to delete one of them and create an extended partition if you want more than four partitions on the drive. Phil -- Philip Stokes Email: phil@stokes.demon.co.uk Fax: +44 (0)870 164 1242 - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
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alexm＠htr-60.tx.symbio.net -
fred＠shogun.anexis.com -
irisinc＠alaska.net -
mperry＠basin.com -
myfish＠dial.pipex.com -
phil＠stokes.demon.co.uk -
timson40＠bunt.com -
zentara＠mindspring.com