[CentOS] installing centOS on extended partition

John R Pierce pierce at hogranch.com
Thu Oct 14 16:53:52 UTC 2010


  On 10/14/10 6:53 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Ritika Garg wrote:
>> Can CentOS be installed on an extended partition? System has the following
>> partitions:
>> OEM(reserved)-78MB(primary)
>> System-100MB(primary)
>> C-55GB(primary)
>> D-100GB(extended)
>> Can I divide D into 2 parts:70GB and 30GB and install CentOS in the 70GB
>> logical partition?
> Of course. Extended or primary is an old, old DOS separation, but once
> they exist, everything just treats it as another partition.
>

/boot still has to be on a primary, doesn't it?





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