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mr.marcus

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Registered: 2012-06-20

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<Solved>Dual Boot Win7 & Arch quick ?

Quick setup here. I have win7 installed on 1/2 of my 500GB HD. SDA: my 160GB storage drive.
I'm in cfdisk during Arch install

sdb1 Prim NTFS sys reserved. 100MB
sdb2 Prim NTFS                             250GB
sdb3 Prim Linux  "my /boot"       100MB
sdb4 Prim Linux. "/"                      30GB
Can't' setup my /swap & /home partition it says unusable. 

Thanks for the help.

Last edited by mr.marcus (2012-07-06 02:57:44)

hadrons123

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Re: <Solved>Dual Boot Win7 & Arch quick ?

You can't have more than 4  primary partitions. Try extended partitions.

Edit:
I don't have swap, home, boot partitions. I have just one root partition.

Last edited by hadrons123 (2012-07-06 02:01:16)

mr.marcus

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Re: <Solved>Dual Boot Win7 & Arch quick ?

So doing some research 4 is the maximum for primary partitions. So can my /root on down partitions be logical partitions.

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Re: <Solved>Dual Boot Win7 & Arch quick ?

4 partitions max with MBR.  Use 3+extended and logicals within the extended.

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mr.marcus

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Re: <Solved>Dual Boot Win7 & Arch quick ?

Thanks.

Last edited by mr.marcus (2012-07-06 02:58:48)