Gotcha DAK,
I realised soon after I had replied that U were using the floppy...
Seriously, I didn't think it might work as fdisk itself stands for "fixed
disk" and partitions etc cannot be created on a FD... Even cfdisk didn't
work - exiting with "FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition"...But tried fdisk
and accieved the same results as U... I'll be trying the other stuff in
the near future (after buying a new HDD), and I'll post my findings to the
list...
So far so good then, we can use the dos fdisk to create a new extended
partition and thats how it stays if we want to have 2 extended partitions
on our disk... btw any idea what the difference could be between these
three different kinds of extended partitions???
Bye ... Narain.
On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Dwivedi Ajay kumar wrote:
I did not test the fdisk on my hdd(doesn;t wanna take chance :) but
took a floppy and /sbin/fdisk /dev/fd0.
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)
However I was successful in converting the DOS extended (ID 5) to
Linux Extended (ID 85).
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.
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