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Ranish Partition I available in PCQ cd . the 101 Green color Cd

Alpesh

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From:	Avinash S. Chinchalkar [SMTP:avinashc@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent:	Friday, August 06, 1999 5:09 PM
To:	linux-india@xxxxxxxxx
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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