On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 15:14 +0100, Jakub Narojczyk wrote: > michael napisał(a): > > >I'm not sure if I'm messed up here but all advice welcome: > > > > I > > used the WinXP setup CD to delete existing WinXP 32Gb partition, > > created > > 2 new 16Gb partitions, then made some spare space at end a new > > partition > > too (it may have been 2 new partitions). WinXP installed okay into one > >of the partitions (didn't create a > > filesys on the others). > > > > but then it seemed had to change from hda3 to hda6 to boot Debian and > >then when do gpart/parted it gives a > > smaller no. > > of partitions than the XP setup made and has a couple with same > > starting > > point (byte? cylinder?).... > > > >I then deleted the new partitions (leaving WinXP in the new but smaller > >partition) but still Debian (eg parted) only sees 3 partitions and two > >of them start in same place. > > > >Sorry for lack of details - will write them down and post later today > > > >M > > > > > I'm not sure what is the problem in You're case. Below is my fdisk -l > output to one of my discs, mayby it'll help You somehow. > dev boot start end Blocks id system > /dev/hda1 * 1 1275 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/hda2 1276 23834 181205167+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) > /dev/hda3 23835 24077 1951897+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda4 24078 24321 1959930 82 Linux swap / Solaris > /dev/hda5 1276 3825 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/hda6 3826 5100 10241406 b W95 FAT32 > /dev/hda7 5101 5354 2040223+ 6 FAT16 > /dev/hda8 5355 23834 148440568+ 83 Linux > > As You can see hda2 and hda5 start in the same "spot" and hda8 ends with > the end of hda2. This is qiute normal, as the hda6-8 are the logical > volumes of hda2 with is the extendet partition. hda 1,3,4 are primary > partitions. > > regards > Jakub >
Jakub, it's useful to be told that the logical/extended may have same start points (obvious once pointed out?). I'm not sure how to determine this from the fdisk output (or do the trailing '+' on the blocks mean something?) I've not found 'fdisk' for Sarge/stable - is it better in anyway than parted, gpart? Thanks, Michael
