Re: Debian installation
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Igor Grobman wrote:
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> On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Shaya Potter wrote:
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> > On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
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> > > 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....
Ahm now I understand, got the terms mixed up. But still, when I used
fdisk to install debian, I used "extended" partitions and nothing like
that showd up.
Sjaua
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