Re: Debian installation
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On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Shaya Potter wrote:
> 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.
No, not exactly. Extended partition itself has to be primary, that is,
one of the first four. Inside the extended partition, you can create
as many logical drives (what people usually call extended partitions) as
you want to. The strange thing is that begin and start numbers don't
coincide. They do coincide for every partition on my machine, which has a
similar setup. I would guess fdisk docs might explain why this would
happen....
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Igor Grobman igor@vaca.net
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