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[3f8be484] | 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent"> |
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| 5 | %general-entities; |
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| 6 | ]> |
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| 7 | |
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| 8 | <sect1 id="ch-partitioning-creatingpartition"> |
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| 9 | <?dbhtml filename="creatingpartition.html"?> |
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| 10 | |
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| 11 | <title>Creating a New Partition</title> |
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| 12 | |
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[3f8be484] | 14 | href="../common/creatingpartition.xml" |
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[dabbced] | 17 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" |
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[3f8be484] | 18 | href="../common/creatingpartition.xml" |
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[dabbced] | 21 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" |
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[3f8be484] | 22 | href="../common/creatingpartition.xml" |
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[dabbced] | 25 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" |
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[3f8be484] | 26 | href="../common/creatingpartition.xml" |
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[dabbced] | 29 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" |
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[3f8be484] | 30 | href="../common/creatingpartition.xml" |
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| 31 | xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='e'])"/> |
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[4d8d705] | 33 | <para>On a Cobalt RaQ2/Cube2 we use the existing firmware for a boot |
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| 34 | loader—it requires an <systemitem class="filesystem">ext2</systemitem> |
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| 35 | revision 0 partition to boot from. Here is the recommended partition layout |
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| 36 | for a Cobalt RaQ2/Cube2 system:</para> |
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[3f8be484] | 37 | |
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| 38 | <itemizedlist> |
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| 39 | <listitem> |
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| 40 | <para>The first partition should be 50-100 MB.</para> |
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| 41 | </listitem> |
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| 42 | <listitem> |
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| 43 | <para>The second partition should be all the remaining space minus the |
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| 44 | amount of RAM in the system.</para> |
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| 45 | </listitem> |
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| 46 | <listitem> |
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| 47 | <para>The third partition is going to be your swap partition, which will |
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[4d8d705] | 48 | be the same size as the amount as the RAM installed in the system.</para> |
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[3f8be484] | 49 | </listitem> |
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| 50 | </itemizedlist> |
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| 51 | |
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| 52 | </sect1> |
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