On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, new bee wrote:
> I deleted the single old partition with fdisk (it was /dev/hda2), created 2
> partitions (native at 'dev/hda5' and swap at 'dev/hda6' - all this was done
This is because somehow your new partitions were extended not
primary. Any hard drive can have up to four primary partitions, and a lot
(don't know the exact number but there has to be one) more extended. This
is why even if your extended partition is the second Linux will name it
/dev/hda5. But you say you deleted a primary partition (/dev/hda2) and
there are now two extended. Are you sure you didn't do anything else?
> from bootable CDROM. I need to mention one more thing, even though i named
> these partitions as /dev/hda3 and /dev/hda4 resp, the partition prog named
> them as above) and installed RH smoothly.
> But then, after logging in, when i see the partition table, it shows
> /dev/hda2 as "extended" (start of this partition same as native's) Also,
So there are primary partitions and extended. Extended is
actually only one. And inside this large extended there are logical
partitions. This extended one starts at the same phisical point as the
first logical. This is the explanation. But better use /dev/hda5 instead
of /dev/hda2.
> when i see /proc/meminfo, it shows 0 swap.
You didn't set swap.
Raider
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