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>4. Partition the new disk</A
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>Use this command to partition the new disk:
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>fdisk /dev/hdb</PRE
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> devices are identified as
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>hda</TT
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>hdb</TT
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>hdc</TT
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>hdd</TT
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> in the
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<TT
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>/dev</TT
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> directory. Partitions on these
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disks can range from 1 to 16 and are also in the
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<TT
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>/dev</TT
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> directory. For example,
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<TT
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>/dev/hda4</TT
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> refers to partition 4 on
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hard disk a (first <SPAN
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> hard disk).</P
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>SCSI</SPAN
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> devices are listed as devices
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>sda</TT
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>sdb</TT
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>,
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>sdc</TT
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>,
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>sdd</TT
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>,
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>sde</TT
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>,
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<TT
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>sdf</TT
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>, and
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>sdg</TT
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> in the
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<TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>/dev</TT
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> directory. Similarly,
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partitions on these disks can range from 1 to 16 and are also in the
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<TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>/dev</TT
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> directory. For example,
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>/dev/sda3</TT
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refers to partition 3 on <SPAN
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> disk a (first
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<SPAN
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>SCSI</SPAN
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> hard disk).</P
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>For Linux partitions with the ext2 file system, use system ID 83. For
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swap partitions, use system ID 82.</P
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>For more information on partitioning, see the Installation How-To and
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the Partition Mini How-To.</P
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>If your new disk has over 1024 cylinders, see the Large Disk Mini
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How-To. In brief, you should install all files required to boot Linux
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within the first 1024 cylinders. One way to do this is to create a small
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partition (5 Mb or so) just for the
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>/boot</TT
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> directory at the beginning of
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the disk. (Slackware only: The kernel is at
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>/vmlinuz</TT
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>/boot/vmlinuz</TT
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>, so you should put both the
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>/</TT
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> directory and the
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>/boot</TT
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>
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directory in this partition.)</P
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>Partitions for systems other than Linux should be created using their
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own <B
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>fdisk</B
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> or equivalent command rather than with
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Linux's <B
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>fdisk</B
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