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Re: Debian installation



On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:

> OK - I went back a few messages and you did show us your partition table.
> 
> >           Boot  Begin Start  End  Blocks  System
> > /dev/hda1  *       1     1   163   82120+ Linux native
> > /dev/hda2        164   164   244   40824  Linux swap
> > 
> > /dev/hda3        245   245  1260  512064  Linux native
> > /dev/hda4       1024  1261  2484  616896  Extended
> 
> Am I reading this right? Could the extended partition in hda3 be
> overlapping the one in hda4? I see hda3 ending at 1260 and hda4
> beginning at 1024. I think the problem is that I don't understand
> extended partitions, and thus I don't see what the difference is
> between "begin" and "start".
> 
> > /dev/hda5       1024  1261  1870  307408+ Linux native
> > /dev/hda6       1024  1871  2484  309424+ Linux native

Something is wrong here.  If Extended means what it does in the dos world 
i.e. as opposed to primary, something is very wrong.  hda1-4 should be 
primary and hda5-... would be extended.  This means that when it says 
Extended, Extended is a type, such as linux native, dos fat, HPFS, NTFS.

Shaya


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