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mmre

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Registered: 2008-06-26

Posts: 22

Partitioning / SWAP / GRUB

Hello,

I've a few problems and I would be happy, if you can help me. The situation is the following:
1. There is only one HDD in the computer
2. Installed Systems: Win XP / Debian
3. That's the modified fdisk -l output:

/dev/hda1   *           1        3264    26218048+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)      Win XP
/dev/hda2            3265        6528    26218080    5  Extended                 Debian
/dev/hda3            6529       16319    78646207+   b  W95 FAT32            Files
/dev/hda4           16320       19457    25205985 83  Linux                      partition for ArchLinux
/dev/hda5   *        3265        4115     6835626   83  Linux                      Debian    
/dev/hda6            4116        4223      867478+  82  Linux swap / Solaris Debian   
/dev/hda7            4224        6528    18514881   83  Linux                      Debian

So you can see, I can't create a new extended partition, because i have one. It's only possible to create one new partition (ext 3) on hda4. And that's the problem, the Arch-Installer needs an extra swap partition, but I can't create one. My idea: Use ArchLinux without a swap partition, use a swapfile. How can I handle that fact with the installer?
The other problem is: Can I skip the GRUB install in the Arch-Installer? I've installed GRUB at hda5 and just wanted to update the menu.lst.
I hope you can understand my problems and you could help me.

Thanks a lot

Last edited by mmre (2008-06-26 15:16:32)

dyscoria

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Registered: 2008-01-10

Posts: 1,007

Re: Partitioning / SWAP / GRUB

Is that a swap partition at hda6? You can share swap partitions with other OS's.

And yes you can skip the GRUB install.

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mmre

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Registered: 2008-06-26

Posts: 22

Re: Partitioning / SWAP / GRUB

I am an idiot! What a simple and good idea just to share the swap file. For security reasons i've backuped my MBR, but I hope I don't need it. Thanks for your both useful answers.