On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 04:51:39PM +0530, Kingsly John wrote:
>
> What's the advantage you see for this ??? his current install
> is working fine... if it ain't broke.. don't fix it!! :o)
>
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All Extended partition installs are prone to break. You see the
number of postings on LIH itself on extended partition installs
breaking, coming up like sore thumbs ?
The classical *nix teaching has always been that. Some things
like Solaris will not install in presence of an extended parti-
tion. In Linux too that was the teaching, until the newer rpm
distros came along ! *BSD/ Slack does not advocate such things
even today. Even M$ does not install on an extended!
I always did follow the classical teaching of "All bootable OSs
should be on Primary partitions". I have NEVER faced any such
problem. There is only one boot record for all the logical par-
titions together at the mother extended record. There is hardly
a point in burdening it with a bootable boot record ... Any
changes to the logicals has chances of breaking it.
If he wants a Linux only box on a 40 GB hard disk. He can have
3 primaries and the rest into one massive extended, with as
many logicals as needed. He can have at least three bootable
OSs at any time without affecting any of the others, and rest
assured that if one breaks the others won't.
If he converts /dev/hda1 to ext2, it is better to install the
Linux to that with no 1024-voodoo risks, and the stability
and seclusion a Primary partition provides.
Just my 2p ...
Bish
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