Partitions (was Re: Debian installation)

1997-02-20 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
The meaning of primary and extended partitions is the same in DOS and Linux. The maximum number of partitions on any drive is 4, of which none or one may be extended and all others must be primary. Any number of virtual or logical partitions may be installed within the extended partition.

Re: Partitions (was Re: Debian installation)

1997-02-20 Thread Bruce Perens
That user was getting complaints about overlapping partitions. I don't see the overlap. Any clue? Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- This

Re: Partitions (was Re: Debian installation)

1997-02-20 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
On Wed, 19 Feb 97 14:49 PST [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) wrote: That user was getting complaints about overlapping partitions. I don't see the overlap. Any clue? Bruce The complaints probably came from using the 'v'- verify the partition table in fdisk. The 'v' command