| 1 | <sect1 id="ch04-creatingpart">
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| 2 | <title>Creating a new partition</title>
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| 3 | <?dbhtml filename="creatingpart.html" dir="chapter04"?>
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| 4 |
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| 5 | <para>First, let's start with telling you that it is possible to build LFS
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| 6 | on only one partition, which is where your original distribution is
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| 7 | installed. This is not recommended if it is the first time you try LFS,
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| 8 | but may be useful if you are short on disk space. If you feel brave, take
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| 9 | a look at the one partition hint at <ulink
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| 10 | url="&hints-root;one-partition-hint.txt">&hints-root;one-partition-hint.txt</ulink>
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| 11 | Keep in mind, this is a real hint in that sense of the word, not a
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| 12 | finished document yet.</para>
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| 13 |
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| 14 | <para>Before we can build our new Linux system, we need to have an empty Linux
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| 15 | partition on which we can build our new system. I recommend a partition size
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| 16 | of at least 750 MB. This gives enough space to store all the tarballs and
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| 17 | to compile all packages without worrying about running out of the necessary
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| 18 | temporary disk space. But you probably want more space than that if you
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| 19 | plan to use the LFS system as your primary Linux system. If that's the
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| 20 | case you'd want more space so you can install additional software. If a
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| 21 | Linux Native partition is already available, this subsection can be
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| 22 | skipped.</para>
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| 23 |
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| 24 | <para>The cfdisk program (or another fdisk like program you prefer) is
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| 25 | to be started with the appropriate hard disk as the option (like /dev/hda
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| 26 | if a new partition is to be created on the primary master IDE disk). It is
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| 27 | used to create a Linux Native partition, write the partition table and exit
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| 28 | the cfdisk program. Please refer to the documentation that comes with your
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| 29 | fdisk program of choice (the man pages are often a good place to start)
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| 30 | and read the procedures about how to create a new Linux native
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| 31 | partition and how to write the partition table.</para>
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| 32 |
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| 33 | <para>The new partition's designation should be remembered. It
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| 34 | could be something like hda11. This newly created partition will be
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| 35 | referred to as the LFS partition in this book.</para>
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| 36 |
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| 37 | </sect1>
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| 38 |
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