Creating more than 4 partitions in Debian 3.1 install

[eclypse80]

I'm attempting to partition my drive as follows:

/boot - 100MB
swap space - 1024MB
/tmp - 2GB
/ - 10GB
/var - 2GB
/local - Remainder of HD space

I know that I can only create 4 partitions before a logical(extended) partition must be setup. I've done this before in SuSE and RedHat, but in Debian I'm stuck. I created /boot, swap, and /tmp. What do I select next to perform the extended partition? Do I let it use the rest of the free space? Do I choose a logical partition and then "Physical volume for LVM"?

Once again, your help is much appreciated.

-Mike

[eclypse80]

Scratch that. I hadn't tried one thing, and that was just to attempt to create the 4th partition as logical. That allowed me to create the 5th and 6th partitions as well..

[towy71]

You can only create four primary partitions and the extended partition will be one of those first four

[Stargrazer]

I know that I can only create 4 partitions before a logical(extended) partition must be setup. I've done this before in SuSE and RedHat, but in Debian I'm stuck. I created /boot, swap, and /tmp. What do I select next to perform the extended partition? Do I let it use the rest of the free space? Do I choose a logical partition and then "Physical volume for LVM"?

When installing Debian, I usually do the following:

* Create a 100MB /boot partition with EXT3
* allocate remainder of space to the LVM, and then with LVM
* allocate 1x or 2x to swap partition
* allocate space for / and /var,
* leave some for later

LVM is provides much more flexibility for what would normally be called logical partitions