On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Philippe Dal wrote: > Hi, everybody.. > > Here is a question for you. I'm rather new in LINUX (but not in UNIX), > and I encountered a major issue trying to install it, in a multi-OS > environment. > > My system is an AMD cpu with all needed to run well (!?)... I have a > 8.6GB disk, on which I installed (using W95 FDISK): > > primary partition C Fat16 502MB <-w95 > extended partition (rest of the disk) > logical D unknown 2GB > logical E unknown 2GB > logical F unknown 1.6GB > logical G unknown 2GB > logical H unknown 198MB > > the "unknown" are there simply because I did not yet format those > logical drives (in a first attempt, they were formated, same problem was > encountered). I could install previously NT in partition E, and use dual > boot (W95/NT) without problem. I want to use partition G for Devian and > H for swap.... All seems OK, until I use cfdisk, which gives me an error > about a bad primary partition... escaping to a shell and using fdisk and > p, it shows me a correct C (/dev/hda1) but some strange data for > /dev/hda2. At one point in time, don't recall exactely what happened, if > found the logical partitions, labeled /dev/hda[5-9].. but after that, my > boot sector went to the drain and I had to reload the whole stuff.... > > Any idea why the extended partition is not correctly decoded by cfdisk? > I also tried to reduce the extended partition to leave free space for > the 2 linux partition, but this did not work either!!!!! Kind of > stuck!!!! > > Any hint welcome. > >
A hint is all this will be, because I don't know what I'm talking about. However, here it is. It seems to me that you've the unknown partitions have been partitioned(?) as extended logical (unknown) partitions. Instead, I think you should delete those partitions, so instead of being "unknown" they'll be "free space". Then you can use cfdisk. Alternatively, in case what I said really is non-informed mumbu-jumbo, you might try Linux's fdisk instead of cfdisk; does the same thing, but has an older-style interface. I understand that sometimes if one doesn't work, the other one might. -- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] KC5ENO - Amateur Radio: When all else fails. Linux - Finally! A real OS for the Intel PC!
