You are not logged in.
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
Offline
You can install linux into logical partitions, just put grub on the MBR.
Offline
The hidden partition is usually for recover.
Offline
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 !
Offline
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.
Offline
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.
Offline
This leaves me only one partition to install Arch on.
You also need a swap partition. It can be logical, too.
Offline
@ 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.
Offline
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 !
Offline
I would just use the unallocated space to put an extended partition and then create the necessary logical partitions inside there.
Offline