[Please CC replies to the original poster -- Raju] hi!
I am Suvra kanta Roy,a 2nd year Computer sci. Engg. student of CET,Bhubaneswar.My problem is related to a partition that I am not able to recognise.Ihave Mandrake linux & win-XP running in my PC.But I want 2 install Red hat linux also.I've 4 partitions of my hard disk made by the technician before I bought it.I know that th mandrake Linus takes about 5gb of space but there are 2 patrtitions of almost the same size i.e. 5.xx Gb.How do I know which is the redundant one,the partition table put up to me when i try installing Red Hat linux is as follows(I have ony 1 hard disk): start end hda1 --- 26717 --- vfat --- 1 3406 hda2 --- 11445 --- extended-- 3407 4865 hda5 --- 5499 --- ext3 --- 3407 4107 hda6 --- 243 --- swap --- 4108 4138 hda7 --- 5703 --- ext3 --- 4139 4865 PLease tell me how can I know that which hda(i.e.hda5 or hda7)is the one which consists of mandrake & which is empty.Please help me quickly as I really need to get the job done soon. Thanks, Suvra Kanta Roy Bhubaneswar. _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/