On Mon, Apr 30, 2001, Abner Gershon wrote: > Just to clarify I tried again to use DOS fdisk as > found on Windows ME StartUp floppy. I may be > overlooking something but it does not appear possible > to make more than one primary partition on a single > physical hard drive with this application. > > I have downloaded the floppy disk images of "rescue" > as well as rest of boot floppy images. I intend to > repartition using cfdisk. > >
I don't think that should be a problem. Make one primary (hda1), then one extended (hda2) and place all your other logical partitions (hda5 up) in that extended partition. Case in point from an fdisk on a machine at work: Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1653 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 64 514048+ 6 FAT16 /dev/hda2 65 1378 10554705 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 65 128 514048+ 6 FAT16 /dev/hda6 129 256 1028128+ 6 FAT16 /dev/hda7 257 320 514048+ 6 FAT16 /dev/hda8 321 381 489951 82 Linux swap /dev/hda9 382 442 489951 82 Linux swap /dev/hda10 * 443 454 96358+ 83 Linux /dev/hda11 455 466 96358+ 83 Linux /dev/hda12 467 588 979933+ 83 Linux /dev/hda13 589 892 2441848+ 83 Linux /dev/hda14 893 1074 1461883+ 83 Linux /dev/hda15 1075 1378 2441848+ 83 Linux Hope that helps and take care, Daniel -- Daniel A. Freedman Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics Department of Physics Cornell University
