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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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| 20 |
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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 Sparc system we have to create a special partition first. This
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| 34 | partition is called <quote>Whole disk</quote>, and must be the 3rd partition
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| 35 | on the disk. The other partitions are virtual slices of this
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| 36 | <quote>Whole disk</quote> partition. </para>
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| 37 |
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| 38 | <para>There are some limitations on the first partition of
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| 39 | <filename class="devicefile">hda</filename> or <filename
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| 40 | class="devicefile">sda</filename> on the system. This partition must be less
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| 41 | than 2 gigabytes, and it must be root.</para>
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| 42 |
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| 43 | </sect1>
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