On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Narain CR wrote:
> Hey man,
>
> Since U already have a system U can test on, why don't U try changing the
I did not test the fdisk on my hdd(doesn;t wanna take chance :) but
took a floppy and /sbin/fdisk /dev/fd0.
> ID of partition 3 to 85 or B, (not 5 - definitely U cannot have two ID 5
No it doesn;t work. the fdisk refuses to convert primary to
extended whatever be its type 5,85 or f (B if FAT32 and not extended)
> (or for that matter B or 85) partitions on the same HDD). Please report on
However I was successful in converting the DOS extended (ID 5) to
Linux Extended (ID 85).
> message, but just a try... If it's OK with U, we can even do this
> off-list...
sure. But I can;t mount the floppy partitions as there are no
devices like /dev/fd0p1 etc.. And my HDD is compltely utilised having
a single primary root and a single extended partition and hence I can't
fiddle with it.
Bye....
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Ajay kumar Dwivedi
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