<======= On 14 Sep 99, at 6:39, SuM w1ttY Pers0n wrote: =======>
> Summarizing: Following DOS/WIN-FDISK rules: ONE CAN HAVE 1 MAIN PARTITION.
> That means everything else (WIN/Linux mix) HAS TO GO IN AN EXTENDED PARTITION.
> It is the PARTITION-TABLE of this EXTENDED partition that gets wiped out.
> (wiping out nearly all harddisk because the extended-partition-table holds
> information for all logical drives, that is all drives minus the main
> partition).
Ahh, say what ?! I'm sorry, but that sounds like wrong to me. DOS Fdisk
allows you to have one boot partition, if that's what you mean by "main", but
you can have up to 4 primary partitions on any one hard disk.
> Linux fdisk allows 4 main partitions. My next setup will have 3 main partitions
> + 1 Extended partition.
> The main partition for DOS/WIN will be towards the end of the disk as much as
> possible.
My 2nd hard disk has 1 primary DOS partition, FAT32, and 2 primary Linux
partitions, / and swap, and the logical partitions for /usr, /home, and /var.
A suggested way of loading linux, would be make a primary FAT partition for
Windows, marked as bootable. Then, leaving the rest of the HDD
unformatted, use the Linux Fdisk/Cfdisk program to create linux partitions.
IN that way, Windows will always be at the front of the drive, but should
ignore the rest of the drive, as it knows there is nothing there.
> With today's big harddisks and the FAT16 limit of 2GB one ends up with more
> partitions. I used FAT16 (and not FAT32) to avoid incompatibility.
Well, I don't know what systems aren't compatible with FAT32, I know most
32-bit M$ OSes have software that allows you to access FAT32 partitions.
I have all my Win98 partitions FAT32, and Linux as linux partitions. I can
read FAT32 ok in Linux, with the exception that spaces are replaced with "\"
characters (?!).
DaganSg
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