Re: Partitioning problems

[dtm12@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Daniel Martin at cush)]

If you still have the partion magic software, can you try to move the
fat32 partition to a primary partition and then make all your extended 
partitions linux partitions.  I find that separating linux and fat32
as much as possible is generally a good thing.

ic382 <ic382@cleveland.freenet.edu> writes:

>   <<snip>>                                   Now, I currently have one
> 2gb primary partition, 1 5gb fat32 extended partition, and 1gb of free
> space in the extended partition to install linux.  But, every time I
> try, it says "FATAL ERROR:  Bad primary partition".  I never touched the
> 2gb primary partition, and it was always flagged bootable.  The extended
> partition was changed around, but I don't see how that is a problem.
> <<snip>>


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