> If you have 1...3 SMSQ partitions, you can have as many Linux
> partitions as you like.
Oops, yes I forgot about creating one extended partition and dividing
it into logical partitions.
> 4 SMSQ partitions worked for me when there were no other
> (=Linux) partitions.
I had four SMSQ partitions on my old 1Gb disk and they all worked OK.
Ian.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgraf
> Sent: 18 June 2001 19:54
> To: ql-users
> Cc: pgraf
> Subject: Re: [ql-users] A tale of two PCs, and a Q40.
>
>
> Ian wrote:
>
> >Incidentally, mkpart_exe offered some 16 million sectors for
> >partitioning, which by my reckoning is about 8Gb, though
> when I put all
> >this is one partition and formatted it I only got 4Gb.
> However, if I
> >made two 8 million sector partitions I found I could format
> them both
> >to 4Gb, and everything appears to be working correctly, and
> the extra 4
> >is a bonus 'cos I thought I could only have 4Gb max for
> QDOS. It does
> >mean however, that when I eventually get around to putting
> Linux on the
> >remainder I'll only have two partitions available for it (I normally
> >prefer a smaller separate root partition and a larger /usr
> partition).
>
> If you have 1...3 SMSQ partitions, you can have as many Linux
> partitions as
> you like.
>
> Richard wrote:
>
> >SMSQ has not been tested accessing more than 3 partitions per drive.
>
> 4 SMSQ partitions worked for me when there were no other
> (=Linux) partitions.
>
> Peter
>
>
>
>
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