DOS Fdisk doesn't see Linux partitions

[Ken Gaugler <keng@wco.com>]

I recently asked for "ideas about moving Debian to another disk",
and got some good suggestions.  I decided to use Paul Serice's
excellent procedure he has on his page at

http://lac.laci.net/pweb/ugs/mini_howto.html

Almost everything went well.  I moved the Linux partitions from the
second IDE disk to the first, then made the [original] first drive
the slave, and added a large first drive.  I partitioned the first
drive (/dev/hda) into 3 DOS partitions. 

In my original configuration, the second drive had only LInux partitions
on it.  Under the new configuration I wanted to use the first part
of the slave [Linux] drive for DOS.  I partitioned it this way:

/dev/hdb1 375MBytes DOS
/dev/hdb2 128Mbytes Linux  (root)
/dev/hdb3 100MBytes Linux  (swap)
/dev/hdb4  remainder of disk (/usr)

There are two strange things happening now.  Dos reports the DOS
partition on the second drive as D:, then the second and third
partitions on the first drive as E: and F:.  I am confused why
the partition on the second drive would appear before the second
and third partitions of the first drive.

Also, DOS reports that D: (the dos partition on the second drive)
as being 1.2Gigs -- that is how big the whole drive is.  DOS
doesn't see the Linux partitions there at all.  I know they are there,
I am running them right now as I type this!

What is going on?  How can I fix this so I get the correct amount of
disk space reported for the DOS partition on my Linux drive?
BTW I have the Linux drive set up for LBA in the [AMI]BIOS, and the
DOS drive is set up for Extended CHS.

I hope someone can help me figure this out!

Thanks.


-- 
Ken Gaugler  N6OSK  Santa Clara, California
email: keng@wco.com  URL: http://www.wco.com/~keng
"The life of a Repo Man is always INTENSE..."


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