partitioning help

[Franklin Parlamis <fparlamis@gmail.com>]

i'm a true novice so apologies and thanks in advance.

i tried to partition my hard drive for a debian woody install.  it is 
just south of 80 Gb and IDE (from a Compaq EVO D510 I am tranferring 
from Windows platform).  i wanted to go with 6 partitions, which would 
require using an extended type physical drive to put the logical drives 
in.  using cfdisk, i made hda1 bootable and type 83 (2 Gb), hda2 type 
82 (10 Gb).  but when i tried to make hda3 an extended type (05, i 
believe) it would not let me.  any thoughts?  my bios is compaq 68602 
v2.20.

also, if anyone has experience using a linksys router to go wirelessly 
to an isp through a dsl modem, i am sure i will need help on that, so 
any references for that task would be appreciated.

thanks.

franklin parlamis