I have decided to give it a try after reading this.
Just make sure you install parted - and issue the command parted.
Do the following - if we assume the disk is sda:
parted /dev/sda
mklabel msdos
This will get rid of the GPT signature on the disk, and you can use a standard fdisk/cfdisk program to set up your paritions.
WARNING: Using the mklabel command with parted will erase all partition informations of your harddisk - and you will need to repartition it. If you are smart - you first take a look at the partition using fdisk - change the units - to have the display in sectors, After the parted operation - you can restore the partition informations with fdisk again.
#sudo fdisk /dev/sda
Command (m for help): u
Changing display/entry units to sectors
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders, total 117210240 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 40965749 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 40965750 60500789 9767520 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 60500790 64709819 2104515 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4 64709820 117210239 26250210 83 Linux
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Entered by smurphy on Tuesday, 21 August 2007 @ 23:55:14
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