On Monday 19 August 2002 03:54 pm, Jure Repinc wrote: > Hi, > > Before installing Mandrake 9.0 Beta 3 I had one partition on my > harddrive: NTFS partition (primary) - hda1. I then decided to create a > new ext3 partition for linux and one swap partiton. But they were both > created as extended partitions (hda5 and hda6). I have to say that I > haven't selected if the partition created should be primary or extended > but I think that by default it should be primary.
You can only have 4 primary partitions on a single hard drive, and windows doesn't like it when you have more than one. Also, IIRC, if you have 4 primary partitions, you can't create any extended partitions. What's wrong with extended partitions? Lilo should boot them fine, and I can't think of any other drawbacks. -- -- Igor
