/dev/hda2 should be the Extended partition. For your first HDD, its not
the case. I think the partitions are numbered in the sequence any
detected Primary, detected Extended, then the ones inside Extended. hdx1
to hdx4 are kept for the four main (for a lack of better term)
partitions (i.e. upto a max of 4 primary or 3 primary and one extended).
hdx5 onwards are given to the ones encountered inside the Extended
partitions.
Thats what I've seen on my installs. If your FC is working (as it
obviously is), then maybe my reasoning is off-target.
Well I found out the error ......
If you can see the entry for my extended partition , it says cylinder
1276 to cylinder 4865 .
so , a partition from 1914 to 3591 (ie hda4 shown above) should be a
logical partition inside this extended partition. But the partition
hda4 above , from 1914 to 3591 is listed as a primary partition .
So cylinders 1914 to 3591 were being counted twice causing the windoze
partition manager to report my 40GB HDD as 59GB hdd. , and Gparted to
not detect any partitions at all. Screw M$ and Winblows.
Also I dunno how FC5 was working just great even with that error.
I have to keep a copy of XP so that my local internet provider can
debug it when the connection goes down, he cant use Linux at all, else
I would have junked it for good.
> Also i want to know how to configure pppoe in Ubuntu. What I did in
Break into its config file somewhere in /etc/ppp. I forgot to check it
when hopping back from Linux. You will have to do a pppoe <some option>
to get your access concentrators listed, I believe.
I found out from the man pages that the kernel mode pppoe installed in Ubuntu
cannot handle multiple access concentrators. Its designed to be used
with Triband etc ie.DSL modems. If you have only one service on your
LAN its ok, else you have to use rp-pppoe package from roaringpenguin
website. It also has a GUI config utility to enter service name.
Posting from Ubuntu Dapper now, its great but I just say not easy to
configure repos in synaptic as Fedora/Yum . The utility itself is
great but the default repo config did not work for me and had to be
edited manually as it had some in.ubuntu... mirrors listed which
gave 404 errors.
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