> Which means, that this there is another "primary" partition, right ?
Yes. My hard drives are partitioned like this:
Pri. Mast.: Primary CP/M, Primary Win98, Extended <Win98, Win98>
Pri. Slave: Primary OpenDOS, Primary NetWare, Primary Linux, Extended
<Linux, NT>
Sec. Mast.: [CD-ROM drive]
Sec. Slave: Primary NetWare, Primary Linux, Primary Linux, Primary NT
[and then a load of SCSI drives].
> Thus, to repeat one reflection: Would it make sense to create a second
> *primary* partition on the first (and only) HD, and to put DOS (and
> maybe even the Linux) there ?
You can have four partitions in the drive's partition table. Any of those
can be extended partitions, which contain their own partition tables etc.
This means you can have four primary partitions, or three primary and an
extended (which is how I do it). There is, however, a problem: DOS doesn't
like having multiple primary DOS partitions. I think it gets confused or
does something nasty if it finds more than one. You could create another
primary partition, and then 'hide' the Win98 one by marking it as some other
operating system type - Linux's fdisk is good for this. You can then swap
between the two by changing the partition types to and from DOS >= 32Mb.
> And how is one to creat a second (or more?) "primary" partitions on
> one HD ?
You can't do it with MS-DOS FDISK - it's simply not an option. However,
Linux's fdisk or various 3rd party tools (Partition Magic for example) will
do it quite happily.
Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett.
(http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/)
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