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  <title>Creating a New Partition</title>

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  <para>On a Sparc system we have to create a special partition first. This
  partition is called <quote>Whole disk</quote>, and must be the 3rd partition
  on the disk. The other partitions are virtual slices of this
  <quote>Whole disk</quote> partition. </para>

  <para>There are some limitations on the first partition of
  <filename class="devicefile">hda</filename> or <filename
  class="devicefile">sda</filename> on the system. This partition must be less
  than 2 gigabytes, and it must be root.</para>

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