[GRLUG] partitioning help

[Topher]

Ok, you know that HP box I said I decided not to get?  I got it anyway.

It came with Win7 Home Premium on it.  I almost always dual boot my 
machines, and if they come with windows I like to leave the original 
install on it.  If nothing else then when it break I can have the repair 
guy see what he expects.

I'm starting to put LMDE on it, and I'm a bit stumped on the partitioning.

It's a 1T drive, and it comes with three partitions already on it.  In 
gparted it says the first is SYSTEM, and 100MiB.  The second is OS and 
918.17 GiB, and the third is HP_RECOVERY, 13.25GiB.

So I resized thhe big one down to 250G, leaving the rest to be chopped up 
for Linux.

Except you can't have more than 4 primary partitions.  AND gparted has 
"logical" greyed out as a partition type.

What to do?  Is the lack of a logical option LMDE's fault?  If I booted 
from that gparted live distro would it let me do it?  Do I need to bite 
the bullet and wipe out the HP_RECOVERY partition?

Save me GRLUG....kenobe.... you're my only hope!

Topher

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