On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 01:59:27AM -0700, Namit Bhalla wrote:
>
> Is it possible to have extended partitions of both linux as
> well as DOS on the same hard disk?? I am trying to install
> PCQLinux 7.1
>
Partitioning a HDD has nothing to do with the OS. There are only
two types of partitions:
a) Primary
b) Extended
The latter (extended) can be subsequently broken into logical
partitions. It is always better to make primary partitions for
each OS, so that the boot sectors can be written to the
partition instead of the MBR. This helps for a multi boot. For
extended-logical partitions there is only one boot sector for
all of them combined.
Once you have an extended partition created the system type is
to be marked for the partition through linux fdisk program.
DOS / Win fdisk cannot handle non M$ partitions. You can
subsequently put the file system using mkfs or mke2fs. DOS/ Win
format can do the same job for M$ partitions created (but not
for Linux).
HTH
Bish.
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