bascule wrote: > or simply use logical partitions for linux - it doesn't care! > i shuld have counted myself though:-) > bascule > On Thursday 31 January 2002 10:15 am, you wrote:> > > So, as far as I know, your choices are to install Linux with just / and > > swap, or on another disk.
And, just for the record, Windows (back as far as Win95, maybe even 3.1) can access extended partitions (for data and program storage). AFAIK you can't install Windows on an extended partition, but I'm not absolutely sure of that, as I've never tried it. To make the answer for the original poster more clear, 5 partitions are not a problem, almost certainly two of them are extended partitions (or logical partitions -- whatever the right terminology is). Disks (under Linux and Windows can have up to four primary partitions). If you want a fifth partition, one of the primary partitions becomes an extended partition, and the 4th and 5th partitions (and any more, up to 63 on an IDE disk and 15 on a SCSI disk) are "logical partitions". Randy Kramer
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