On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:51:00PM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: > As far as I'm aware, DOS/Windows recommends creating a single primary > partition, with any extra space allocated to the extended partition
yes, but > The difference is that, for Linux at least, it will also work with > multiple primary partitions on a disk. DOS can also happily use more than one (FAT16 and/or FAT12) primary dos partition (on the same disk): I have pratically seen that (without tricks such as hiding the type of the partition and so on) and a google search will confirm that. (However, those multiple primary partitions were not created by the official DOS fdisk; dos uses such multiple partitions even when it was not the creator of them). The interesting feature is that MS-DOS and DR-DOS give (under some usual circustances) different drive letters to those extra primary partitions, which can be useful in a DOS-multiboot system. I suppose that freedos can both create and use such multiple primary partitions, but the debian package dosemu-freedos does not contain a fdisk executable. I am also sure that *BSD can use such multiple `primary dos partitions' aka slices (but some versions have problems with some kinds of multiple slices each with a *BSD disklabel: at least some years ago it was not possible to have FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD in triple boot in the obvious way). -- Chi usa software non libero avvelena anche te. Digli di smettere. Informatica=arsenico: minime dosi in rari casi patologici, altrimenti letale. Informatica=bomba: intelligente solo per gli stupidi che ci credono. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
