I just got my new 60GB Seagate IV HD and I wanted to do a dual-boot with Win2k and RedHat Linux.
I set the partitions as follows:
1. 3GB NTFS - Primary
2. 4GB EXT2 - Primary
3. 125MB Linux Swap - Primary
4. 53GB Extended - Primary
5. 53GB FAT32 - Logical
The problem is, When I was formatting, it always hangs at some point when I try to format the 53GB FAT32 partition. After looking at the Partition Magic 5 help file, it says that I can have either:
4 Primary partitions
or
3 Primary and 1 Extended
Is this a limitation of Partition Magic 5 or of the hard drive and OS BootLoaders?
Anyway what I am doing right at the moment is including the Linux Swap in the 53GB Extended partition so it is not a primary partition anymore. Is this the correct way to do things?
I set the partitions as follows:
1. 3GB NTFS - Primary
2. 4GB EXT2 - Primary
3. 125MB Linux Swap - Primary
4. 53GB Extended - Primary
5. 53GB FAT32 - Logical
The problem is, When I was formatting, it always hangs at some point when I try to format the 53GB FAT32 partition. After looking at the Partition Magic 5 help file, it says that I can have either:
4 Primary partitions
or
3 Primary and 1 Extended
Is this a limitation of Partition Magic 5 or of the hard drive and OS BootLoaders?
Anyway what I am doing right at the moment is including the Linux Swap in the 53GB Extended partition so it is not a primary partition anymore. Is this the correct way to do things?
