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Re: trouble with IDE > 1024 Cyl
On Wed, 21 Jun 1995, Shlomo Hasson wrote:
> Well,
> You can have the 2 dos partitions as primary ones, and set an extended partition
> aside for the linux. The linux will need at least 2 partitions which will
> be contained in the extended partition. These are logical partitions.
> I think logical partitions HAVE TO start from /dev/hda5 even if you do not
> use a /dev/hda4 for a primary partition, but check it out anyway.
the number in the partition is a running number from 1 to 8. You can't
have hda5 without having hda4 and hda3 and so on.
What more you can't boot linux from an extended dos partition (making
one if dos' fdisk creats a dos extended not only extended).
Paolo Supino