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Installation

If this drive has not been partitioned yet, the screen presented will look some 

thing like:

Screen 7: cfdisk; Empty Partition.

Debian Linux uses cfdisk which is a smaller, more trimmed down, partition

editor than fdisk, and provides all the functionality necessary for partitioning

a new device from scratch. Everything in the installation system has been

chosen for its small size and cfdisk is no exception.

With no partitions created the obvious choice is New, which will give the

options: Primary, Logical, and Cancel

Only 4 primary partitions can be created on any one physical drive. Usually

this is sufficient. When it isn't, logical partitions are used to extend the number

of partitions. Logical partitions, sometimes known as  extended  partitions

live inside of a primary partition. To add logical partitions will thus require

the removal of one of the 4 possible primary partitions. With only 3 primary