Camaleón wrote:
On Sat, 05 May 2012 17:38:10 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: (...)Using Gparted, I could not find a way to create ONE partition using all the space of the TWO now 'deleted' partitions.What does Gparted now say? How it detects the hard disk partitions? Is there any allocatable free space? Is it contiguous? Can you upload a snapshot of the disk layout?
That portion of my problem "went away" after another install cycle. I'm purposely going thru multiple install cycles in order to understand netinst.iso.
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A general partitioning question - where would I find comparative definitions of [Primary, Extended, and Logical] partitions?Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_partitioning
Good article. Various links reminded me of things I learned decades ago and had drifted out of appropriate pigeon holes.
Thank you