Re: Debian installation
Shaya:
> 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.
I suspect that this means there's a nameless extended partition that begins
at 1024, and that hda4 starts at offset 1261 into _that_.
Bruce
> 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
> /dev/hda5 1024 1261 1870 307408+ Linux native
> /dev/hda6 1024 1871 2484 309424+ Linux native
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