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#1 2010-08-12 17:08:37
- k5knt
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Logical Partition Only? Windows Arch Dual Boot
ASUS Eee PC
I want to dual boot for the present time and my hard drive is currently partitioned as:
Winows - NTFS - Primary partition - 70 GB
Hidden - Fat32 - Primary partition - 15 GB
Unknown - Other - Primary partition - 20 MB
Unallocated - 147 GB
I have no idea what the hidden and other partitions are, but I don't want to delete them just yet.
This leaves me only one partition to install Arch on. Can I make the all of unallocated a logical drive and install Arch or do I need at least one primary partition?
Thanks,
Kent
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#2 2010-08-12 17:10:25
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Re: Logical Partition Only? Windows Arch Dual Boot
You can install linux into logical partitions, just put grub on the MBR.
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#3 2010-08-12 17:25:53
- yejun
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Re: Logical Partition Only? Windows Arch Dual Boot
The hidden partition is usually for recover.
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#4 2010-08-12 17:27:14
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Re: Logical Partition Only? Windows Arch Dual Boot
15GB hidden partition : That's probably a recovery partition. You can choose to remove it, if you are positive that you will not need it.
EDIT : Bah !! too late
Last edited by Inxsible (2010-08-12 17:27:38)
There's no such thing as a stupid question, but there sure are a lot of inquisitive idiots !
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#5 2010-08-12 18:54:29
- k5knt
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Re: Logical Partition Only? Windows Arch Dual Boot
Thanks for the replies. It has been several months since I've had a computer to put Linux on and in the past I've always been able to have at least one primary linux partition.
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#6 2010-08-12 21:25:05
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Re: Logical Partition Only? Windows Arch Dual Boot
There's also usually an option to make a set of recovery disks. I think I had a 12GB recovery partition and the "set" of discs was going to be 21CDs 
but it would free up that space and a primary partition.
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#7 2010-08-12 22:22:25
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Re: Logical Partition Only? Windows Arch Dual Boot
This leaves me only one partition to install Arch on.
You also need a swap partition. It can be logical, too.
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#8 2010-08-13 00:45:48
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Re: Logical Partition Only? Windows Arch Dual Boot
@ aetherfly: Since I posted, I've been thinking about just deleting my windows partition and leaving the recovery partition in case I ever want or need to restore windows.
@Proofrific: Thanks, I knew I needed a swap, I just didn't mention it in my post, my bad.
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#9 2010-08-13 03:31:34
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you don't necessarily need swap as a partition. you can even have it as a swap file.
There's no such thing as a stupid question, but there sure are a lot of inquisitive idiots !
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#10 2010-08-13 04:00:35
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Re: Logical Partition Only? Windows Arch Dual Boot
I would just use the unallocated space to put an extended partition and then create the necessary logical partitions inside there.
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