Dale Huckeby wrote: >On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Marc Audard wrote: > > >>. . . >> >> >> >> > It would make sense to try that, at least according to my quite possibly >mistaken understanding of the logic of partitioning. However, RedHat has >several times barfed on my Mandrake partitions, and I'm pretty sure I had >had an hda1 primary at /, hda2 primary swap, hda3 primary at /home, and a >primary extended into logical partitions hda5 at /usr and hda6 at /var (if >I remember correctly). I wouldn't have thought that would be a problem, >but it said each time that it couldn't read the partition table. I've been >attributing it to the fact that the Mandrake partitions were ReiserFS, but >I don't know. So you might still have to wipe. Of course, my "analysis" >is probably full of holes, since I don't know much about partitioning >except by trying to logic it out. > >Dale Huckeby > > > > All this has happened because of the differing ways that the old DOS fdisk notation can be set up. Whilst it is correct that you can create up to 4 primary dos partitions, few systems do, these days, this is because the prefered manner of doing things is to create One primary partition(the first one) then take all the rest of the drive, and designate it an Extended dos partition that itself can be devided up into as many Logical dos partitions as you care to create. In the aformentioned example something , probably diskdrake created 4 primary dos partitions, which Redhat it would seem does not like, while Mandrake is happy to work with it. The solution appears to be to recreate your partition table in the generally accepted one primary, one extended of any number of logicals because I know mandrake is happy to work with this configuration as well, indeed that is what I have, and it would seem RH likes it as well.Civileme say's diskdrake can be made to do that as well, which is fair enough, in case you don't have PM. I know the windblows newer partiton tools as well as PM create one primary, one extended of any number of logicals when they are used.It is only the old Dos fdisk programme and diskdrake that allow you to create up to 4 primary dos partitions, one extended of any number of logical dos partitions.
It's about time really that the whole industry went over to the linux hardrive partitioning system, of hda, hdb, hdc, partitions1,2,3,4, etc etc.but the windblows world is stuck with the old dos fdisk , so there we are. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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