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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 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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| 13 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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| 14 | href="../common/creatingpartition.xml"
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| 15 | xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='a'])"/>
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| 16 |
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| 17 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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| 18 | href="../common/creatingpartition.xml"
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| 19 | xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='b'])"/>
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| 21 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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| 22 | href="../common/creatingpartition.xml"
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| 23 | xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='c'])"/>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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| 26 | href="../common/creatingpartition.xml"
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| 27 | xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='d'])"/>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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| 30 | href="../common/creatingpartition.xml"
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| 31 | xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='e'])"/>
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| 32 |
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| 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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| 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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| 48 | be the same size as the amount as the RAM installed in the system.</para>
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| 49 | </listitem>
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| 50 | </itemizedlist>
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| 51 |
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| 52 | </sect1>
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