All-- I'm installing Debian Potato on a new workstation. I have 2 disks, and I wanted to put OS and apps all on one and user data all on the other. On sda, I made a bootable partition and partitions for /, /usr, /var, /tmp, and swap.
When I tried to make sdb all one partition, I couldn't write the partion table to disk (got the message: "Not precisely one primary partition is bootable. DOS MBR cannot boot this."). I didn't think that each disk needed to be bootable. What do I do -- is it okay to make a small, bootable primary partition here? Thanks for your help. --Bryan
