michael napisał(a):
I'm not sure if I'm messed up here but all advice welcome:I'm not sure what is the problem in You're case. Below is my fdisk -l output to one of my discs, mayby it'll help You somehow.Iused the WinXP setup CD to delete existing WinXP 32Gb partition, created 2 new 16Gb partitions, then made some spare space at end a new partitiontoo (it may have been 2 new partitions). WinXP installed okay into one of the partitions (didn't create a filesys on the others). but then it seemed had to change from hda3 to hda6 to boot Debian andthen when do gpart/parted it gives a smaller no. of partitions than the XP setup made and has a couple with same startingpoint (byte? cylinder?).... I then deleted the new partitions (leaving WinXP in the new but smaller partition) but still Debian (eg parted) only sees 3 partitions and two of them start in same place. Sorry for lack of details - will write them down and post later today M
dev boot start end Blocks id system /dev/hda1 * 1 1275 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 1276 23834 181205167+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda3 23835 24077 1951897+ 83 Linux /dev/hda4 24078 24321 1959930 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda5 1276 3825 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda6 3826 5100 10241406 b W95 FAT32 /dev/hda7 5101 5354 2040223+ 6 FAT16 /dev/hda8 5355 23834 148440568+ 83 LinuxAs You can see hda2 and hda5 start in the same "spot" and hda8 ends with the end of hda2. This is qiute normal, as the hda6-8 are the logical volumes of hda2 with is the extendet partition. hda 1,3,4 are primary partitions.
regards Jakub
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