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Help for partitions
Hi all,
I've got a *major* problem.
Okay, first I'll give you the low down :
I run a P233 (Celeron), Win 95 + Linux Red Hat 5.0. Win 95 has 2 partitions -C:->1.8G and D:->1.8G and Linux 600M (I know you are all going to hate me for giving Linux so little). Saw Red Hat 6, loved it, wanted to increase disk allocation for Linux. Used
Fips 2.0 to fip C: (I wouldn't have been crying for help if Fips could handle extended DOS partitions, but it can't) and got an extra 600M. If you view my HDD as a linear table it looks like this:
+---------------------------------------------------+
|DOS partition |Raw Space |DOS Partition |Raw Space |
|1.2G(C:) |(600M) |1.8G (D:) |(600M) |
+---------------------------------------------------+
I want to use the two raw 'partitions' for Linux - One for the base and another for juicy utils like Gimp, Netscape, WordPerfect and the like.
I used 'fdisk' that comes with the RedHat inst. The partition table looks like this (Before creating the linux partitions) :
Device Boot Start End System Size
- --------------------------------------
hda1 * 1 192 DOS 1.2G
hda2 231 460 Ext Dos 1.8G
hda5 231 460 DOS 1.8G
I now need 3 partitions (right?) - 2 Linux native partitions and one Linux Swap. But as you can see only partitions 3 and 4 are available. 'fdisk' does not allow me to create >5 partitions (quite understandable).
My questions are :
1] Will an Extended Linux partition help me out so that I can have 2 logical partitions in it - One for swap and one as native?
2] If it will, then how do I create one - fdisk does not allow changing Linux Native (Code 0x83) to Linux Extended (Code 0x85).
Thanx for having the patience to go thru this.
Thanx again
Moody
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