Hi Civileme! I believe I did both! :(
I was trying tomake the linux 8.1 /root be a ext3 type as suggested and chose "extended 0x85" under preferences. And the first time I tried to format the various partitions with diskdrake, it wouldn't accept 2 swaps so I thought making one of them primary might help. That probably went over the limit I guess. So how do I now get around the "Raw_add: partition table full" error? Now I can't delete and reinstall partitions ... I can delete the non-window partition but get the error when it starts the formatting stage on whatever partitions I set up ... dan > The other possibility is that you tried to make more than three > primaries plus an extended or you tried to make one of the extended the > linux extended (085) type which is actually a pointer to an extension > chain from one of the primaries. > > NEVER use 085. It probably shouldn't even be there and there used to be > ways to crash diskdrake and fdisk by using it wrongly, but instal team > closed those off after they were pointed out and QA assessed what was > happening. > > OK lets look at the nuts and bolts of partition tables for a moment > > sector 0--the Master Boot Record (MBR) on a dos-patrition disk has the > last 66 bytes as 4 - 16 byte fields plus two signature bytes for > validity checking. > > Each field has the Cylinder,Head, and sector number for the partition it > points to plus the number of cylinders in the partition. There are ONLY > FOUR ENTRIES possible. > > Suppose you make 3 entries for primary partitions and you still have > many partitions to make. You make the fourth (and diskdrake does this > trnsparently) the rextended partition, which means that a bit is set so > the reading system says "this points to a sector out on disk where > further information is available". > > OK once you get there to that sector, in the last 66 bytes there will > be TWO partition table entries. The first says where the extension > partition is and what its size is and the second points to another > sector where additional partitioning information is available. In other > words you have an extension chain. > > It is possible to have more than one extension chain, but that is > strictly for experts. > > Windows stops looking down the chain as soon as it sees a non-windows > partition, so it is possible to hide an already existing windows > extended partition from windows by putting partitions in between > (diskdrake tries to keep partitions on the disk in partition number order). > > I hope this helps. > > Civileme ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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