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  <title>Creating a New Partition</title>

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  <para>On a Cobalt RaQ2/Cube2 we use the existing firmware for a boot
  loader&mdash;it requires an <systemitem class="filesystem">ext2</systemitem>
  revision 0 partition to boot from. Here is the recommended partition layout
  for a Cobalt RaQ2/Cube2 system:</para>

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    <listitem>
      <para>The first partition should be 50-100 MB.</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>The second partition should be all the remaining space minus the
      amount of RAM in the system.</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>The third partition is going to be your swap partition, which will
      be the same size as the amount as the RAM installed in the system.</para>
    </listitem>
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