Re: its not a dos partition?

[Elaina Tillinghast <ebt@airmail.net>]

Subject: 
        Re: its not a dos partition?

Christopher Barry <cbarry@2xtreme.net> wrote:

> John Martin wrote:
Thought I changed that

> Dos won't let you create more than one primary partition when one is already set
> 'active' (bootable). Dos's fdisk won't let you set an active primary partition to
> non-active so that you can create another primary partition so you must use a
> different utility to do this first (such as linux's fdisk). Once you've done that,
> Dos's fdisk will let you set whichever primary partition you want active to 'active'.

Thanks

> I'm not 100% clear on what you are saying here
Caught writing a poorly worded message.

For some time I have been dual booting linux and dos/win3.1 off of a HP
drive with 1 gig. I added a 4g Seagate st15150w. It is now partitioned:
.5g dos2
.5g dos3
 1g linux
 1g linux
 1g linux
With linux i can mount and write to all but dos3. This is important so
that I can "cp -a" everything on my first drive to the second before
repartitioning the first. I don't need this partition for for the
rearranging, but would like this issue resolved before I rely on the
drive.

I picked this arrangement in hopes of keeping one linux partition as a
primary for /usr to keep that slight speed boost and one dos partition
under 1024 cylinders in case I ever needed to boot off of it. I haven't
yet looked into the requirements for mirroring. I'm already set up with
my bootable floppy to cp / and dos1 back to drive 1 which will then be
.5g per os.

I could prbably work around the dos partition that can't be read.
Partition it a different way or something. I have just never heard of a
dos partition that couldn't be read by linux. Dos thinks it can read and
write to both dos partitions on drive 2.

Elaina


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