Re: fdisk problems

["Prem Kurian Philip" <pkphilip@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi folks,

Check out tools such as GAG which is a Graphical
partition/boot manager. This is available from
Freshmeat.net. It is open source and supports
a reasonable number of options. If you can't find it,
let me know. I shall send the mail across to you.

Regards,
Prem Kurian Philip
- ----- Original Message -----
From: Avinash S. Chinchalkar <avinashc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-india@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 5:08 PM
Subject: RE: fdisk problems


> Hi Vinay,
>
> This is a bit tricky & risky way - but you can give it a try!!!
> Instead of fidling around with the MBR directly, try to grab the freeware
> 'Ranish Partition' (I dont remember exact name..:))
>
> Its Real Good - I would love to see such pice of work (with LINUX QUALITY)
> from LINUX World.
>
> This will allow you to have 31 primary partitions(31 OSes if you have) in
> single HDD. It has lot of other features as well. A SW worth having in
your
> collection.
>
> But the user interface & document needs to be understood carefully before
> trying this out. And its quite dangerous to try this on HDD having lot of
> important data, as i have messed up with my HDD more than 3 times using
this
> tool....finally i am back to godold lilo.
>
> If you want to have this sw & couldnt find it on the net ...let me know.
> As I dont have it in here(Off)...i have it at home, i can send it through
> mail by monday.
>
> Regards,
> Avi.
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vinay BV [mailto:vinay.bv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 05, 1999 7:48 AM
> > To: linux-india@xxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: fdisk problems
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > One more qstn:- Can I use Lilo to boot through a primary slave hdd?
> > TIA,
> > Bye,
> > Vinay
> >
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