At 01:22 PM 1/23/2003 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following:
In the DOS/Windows/Linux world ALL drives, no matter how many partitions you eventually have, are first divided into only two, A Primary [DOS] Partition and a Extended [DOS] Partition. NOTE: Windows 98/ME/XP/NT also allows for only ONE larrrrrge primary partition.1) The first is with regard to hard drives - does a hard drive ALWAYS have to have, to operate properly, a regular primary partition, or can it just have an extended partition??? After working with a number of hard drives over the years, and various versions of Dos and Windows, it seems that you must have a primary partition before you can define an extended partition. Since the extended is supposted to be a primary, it would seem that it could be the all in one partition on a hard drive, but that does not seem to be the case from my previous experiences, that you have to define a regular primary then an extended.
There are BIOS limits on the number of partitions you can have on a single drive in a PC. With Linux, the current limit is sixteen partitions. How you lay out these partitions is important, since of those sixteen partitions, only four of those can be primary, the rest have to be logical. So if you want one through four partitions then make them all primary. If you want five through sixteen partitions, then you make three of the partitions primary, the fourth a special type of container partition an extended, and then you make as many as you need (up to a total of sixteen) as logical partitions inside the extended one.
eBay is the way to go. I sold 2-cars, a dune buggy, a refrigerator, miscellaneous Volkswagen parts, repair books, and house furniture all local to the Los Angeles area. Amazing is still the way I put it. Newspaper ads and garage sales fell flat, but with eBay, all was sold. I will be selling old software and books as soon as I get myself organized in my new house. Pictures on a web site are the key.3) *** OFF TOPIC *** (maybe) - due to the way things looked in the last six months, I purchased various pieces of computer equipment, including DVD burners, video cards, sound card, P4 1.6 Gig, 1 Gig ram, bare bones computer system, and other items, as well as OS and related software, that were going to get put together into a completed system to replace my older system. Now, because of other issues that have occured in the last weeks, things are changed and I have a more current system. The other equipment was purchased brand new and has never been used, but can not be returned due to length of time I have had (oh, the 20/20 vision of hindsight and "boy would I have waited if I only knew then" when seen from a future point of view).So the question I have for those on the list is how to sell the other equipment to those that would need a currently speced but never used system and/or equipment to try and regain some of the money I originally spent for the equipment??? Since I have never used a system such as E-Bay or similar, and dont really want to use that approach if possible, not sure what is the best to do.
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Gerry Boyd
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