I found an old version of FWB Hard Disk Toolkit and made a 500MB partition, installed os 7.6.1 on it and successfully booted, not sure why drive setup was giving me no love
then made a 4gb partition, copied some files to it, rebooted, and it was there! yay!
then made a 4gb partition, copied some files to it, rebooted, and it was there! yay!