Handbook:HPPA/Blocks/Disks/en

Partitions and slices
Although it is theoretically possible to use a full disk to house the Linux system, this is almost never done in practice. Instead, full disk block devices are split up in smaller, more manageable block devices. On most systems, these are called partitions. Other architectures use a similar technique, called slices.

Using fdisk on HPPA
Use  to create the partitions needed:

HPPA machines use the PC standard DOS partition tables. To create a new DOS partition table press the key.

PALO (the HPPA bootloader) needs a special partition to work. A partition of at least 16MB at the beginning of the disk needs to be created for it. The partition type must be of type f0 (Linux/PA-RISC boot).

In, such a partition layout looks like so: