I have a hard drive which has a Primary partition ( WinMe ) and Extended Partition with four Logical Drives. XP being on one of them. I have about 18G freespace and was wondering if I could create ...

I am trying to install DSL to my hard drive from the live cd, it gives the options for full or frugal install, and lilo or grub. but first it tells me to creat partitions using cfdisk in the terminal.

As usual, this blog post comes out of something I have been working on (read as: struggling with) for the past few days. The purpose is to give an overview of disk partitioning under Linux, ...