Re: fdisk problems

[Vinay BV <vinay.bv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Arun,

The problem is that I did not get the extended partition option when I
used "n" to create a new partition. I had to create a primary partition,
then change the type to linux-extended and then create lofical drives in
it. 
But the total number of primary partitions (as I have mentioned before) is
4 (hda1,hda2,hda3,hda4), I've exhausted all of these as below:-
hda1 - dos primary
hda2 - dos extended
hda3 - linux-native primary
hda4 - linux-swap
Now the total number of primary partitions that linux fdisk allows is 4,
which I've finished. So I can't create one more primary partition and then
change it to extended. 
What I actually want to know is how to change the ID of the partitions
(like I want to change the id of swap partition from hda4 to hda5 or
hda6.)

Regarding the Lilo usage wrt booting in a slave disk. My d: is the slave
primary drive. I'd said "sys d:" and made it bootable. Checked it out by
making it master. Then I reconfigured Lilo to include this drive by adding
the following entries:-(my slave hdd is recognised as hdb)
other=/dev/hdb1 
	label=slave
	table=/dev/hdb

But as soon as Lilo went to the slave disk, I got a mesg that"Invalid
system disk".

Thank you arun for your prompt reply,
Bye,
Vinay



On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Arun Sharma wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 07:47:31AM +0530, Vinay BV wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > I was installing linux on a HDD which already had a primary dos and an
> > extended dos partition. They were recognised as hda1 and hda2. So I
> > created two partition using fdisk of linux as hda3 and hda4. I then
> > changed the partition type of hda4 to Linux swap. Now when I want to
> > create an extended partition, how do I create it? I cannot create a
> > logical partion without creating an extended partition.
> >  To create an extended partition, I have to create a primary partition and
> > change its type to linux extended. But I face a problem here, as the range
> > of primary partition (hda1-4) is full. 
> 
> Create an extended partition using Linux fdisk and then you can create 
> many partitions inside that extended partition. The numbers will go:
> 
> hda1, hda2 <hda5 hda6 hda7...>
> 
> <...> is the extended partition hda3 which holds the rest.
> 
> >  
> > One more qstn:- Can I use Lilo to boot through a primary slave hdd?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> 	-Arun
> 
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