Again, thanks to all. HDD partitioned and working....ooops forgot the fstab entry, oh well something to do tomorrow.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Peter Rundle > Sent: Tuesday, 16 July 2002 3:52 PM > To: Simon Bryan; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SLUG] e or p in FDISK > > > > Simple question: should this be an extended or primary partition? > > Extended partitions were invented to overcome the fact that PC > boot sectors (where the partition table is held) are limited > to only 4 partitions. If you aren't going to put more than > 4 partitions on the disk then you don't need to use an extended > partition. > > rgds > > Pete > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
