TheHarbinger
April 8th, 2009, 04:08 PM
Hello to all.
I'm attempting to make a triple-boot system on my PC, with OS X (Hackintosh), XP, and Ubuntu. I figured out that I needed to install OSX first, so I've done so and used its Disk Utility to create two partitions. This allowed me to make a GPT, or GUID, partition for the OS and a second partition that I would use gparted to further divide for the other OSes. The plan, after creating partitions for the three OSes, was to have a large NTFS partition for XP's use and a 5GB Linux swap partition at the end of the drive.
I discovered that OSX actually created three partitions--one was an EFI partition (set as primary, boot, FAT32), the second was a GUID partition (set as primary, type af, HFS+), and the third was set up by default as an HFS+ partition. When I went into gparted I was able to blow away the third, HFS+ partition and subdivide it for Linux and XP. However, I ran into another problem--I'm only allowed four primary partitions and the rest must be extended. WIth EFI, OSX, XP, and Linux, all my primaries are used up. I could create an extended partition for XP's use, but could not create a 5GB partition at the end of the disk for Linux swap.
Could the remaining drive space be allocated as an extended partition, and the Linux swap be assigned as a drive in that partition? Could I simply create a swapfile in the Linux partition? What would be the best way to proceed?
I'm attempting to make a triple-boot system on my PC, with OS X (Hackintosh), XP, and Ubuntu. I figured out that I needed to install OSX first, so I've done so and used its Disk Utility to create two partitions. This allowed me to make a GPT, or GUID, partition for the OS and a second partition that I would use gparted to further divide for the other OSes. The plan, after creating partitions for the three OSes, was to have a large NTFS partition for XP's use and a 5GB Linux swap partition at the end of the drive.
I discovered that OSX actually created three partitions--one was an EFI partition (set as primary, boot, FAT32), the second was a GUID partition (set as primary, type af, HFS+), and the third was set up by default as an HFS+ partition. When I went into gparted I was able to blow away the third, HFS+ partition and subdivide it for Linux and XP. However, I ran into another problem--I'm only allowed four primary partitions and the rest must be extended. WIth EFI, OSX, XP, and Linux, all my primaries are used up. I could create an extended partition for XP's use, but could not create a 5GB partition at the end of the disk for Linux swap.
Could the remaining drive space be allocated as an extended partition, and the Linux swap be assigned as a drive in that partition? Could I simply create a swapfile in the Linux partition? What would be the best way to proceed?