On 12 Jan 2002 at 13:17, USM Bish wrote: > 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 ?
I disagree. In fact I love the fact that you can just go on making partitions and forget about primary/extended voodoo. Just mount them and it runs.. I have 4 machines with mandrake8/8.1 which has extended partitions. No problem what so ever.(BTW, nobody is going to believe this. I had MDK8.1/KDE2.2.x runnning 50% faster than win98 with 128MB RAM/i810... I was amazed...;) Except of 1024 thing, I don't think there should be any problems. The real problems are setting extended partition active from windows etc... Once cleanly installed, there is no difference between extended and primary partitions.. > even today. Even M$ does not install on an extended! Well, you know they can't do many things that real software does, anyways.. > 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- That's because you understand what you are doing an not because you did a all primary install. I bet you install freebsd on extended partition and it will work without a hitch... > 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. I thought every partition has a bootable record. Be it primary or extended. Only difference is bootable record of an extended partition acts as partition table for othe partitions involved. That's why you never install lilo on /dev/hda4 but on /dev/hda5(Some context assumed..) And it works.. Did I miss something? > many logicals as needed. He can have at least three bootable You said it.. *At least* three..;-) Shridhar _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
