Re: Debian installation
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
> 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_.
>
I don't hink so b/c extended partitions are by default after hda4. You
can have 4 primaries and many extended. The extended are part of a
logical partition. That is why during a boot we get hda1, hda2 < hda5 >,
or something like that. WE have primary hda1, logical hda2, which has
hda5 as a prt of it. All extended partitions are after 4.
Shaya
> > 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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