Re: Debian installation
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I hate to toss water on this logic, but here is my 2 Gb drive.
Using /dev/hda as default device!
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 1023 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1 260 524128+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda2 261 261 1023 1538208 5 Extended
/dev/hda3 729 729 748 40320 83 Linux native
/dev/hda4 749 749 768 40320 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda5 261 261 387 256000+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda6 388 388 728 687424+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda7 769 769 870 205600+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hda8 871 871 946 153184+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hda9 947 947 1023 155200+ 83 Linux native
The Extended partiton is on hda2. Confusing? Yep! 8^) But it works.
It probably got that way by me defining 1 then 2 then 5 then 6 then 3
then 4 then 7, etc.
Jim.
One, the extended partition isn't necessarily contiguous.
Two, the extended partition doesn't have to be partition 4.
Organized people probably always make it that way, but scatterbrained
(like me) don't.
Oh, I don't dare turn DRDOS loose on this, he pukes at the organization
and reshuffles things in the table. Nasty, until you figure out
what he did.
>
> 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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> >
>
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