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Multiboot machine?
cymon:
You can only have 4 primary partitions.
Aloone_Jonez:
Oh bollocks!
You say "primary partitions" can I have more secondary partitions then?
If I install Vesctor Linux on an ext3 primary partition can I then use a secondary partition for the swap?
cymon:
Yep. OS'es like their boot partitions on primary, but you can share a swap partition, and it can be secondary.
mobrien_12:
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---Now Windows 98 setup one big fuck-off 20GB FAT32 partition and I've managed to resize it down to 2.68GB. I want to create many partitions for my OSes to live on but I'm having problems, I can't seem to create any more than 5, is this normal?
Is there a way to have any more or I could just connect another hard drive though it'd be a pain in the arse?
--- End quote ---
YOu can have seven.
Three primary partitions. One extended partition containing four logical paritions.
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primary 1 (hda1)
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primary 2 (hda2)
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primary 3 (hda3)
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EXTENDED (hda4)
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log (hda5)
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log (hda6)
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log (hda7)
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log (hda8)
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hda4 is not accessable directly because it is only a container for the logical partitons.
Even if you make hda3 your extended partion, the logical partitions start numbering at hda5 anyway.
This is, of course, using the MSDOS disklabel system that almost every PC uses. It's inferior, but you must use it if you want an MS operating system on it.
mobrien_12:
You can put an entire linux install on logical paritions. Even the boot partition can live on a logical partition if you use GRUB as your bootloader.
FreeBSD needs a primary partition because it breaks it up into "slices".
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