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Re: [LI] PC Quest -> Linux 6.1 etc



----- Original Message -----
From: Pankaj <meetpankaj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-india@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 15, 1999 2:48 PM
Subject: Re: [LI] PC Quest -> Linux 6.1 etc


> By the way, I tried to install Linux 5.2 at one of my friends place. He
has
> one primary
> partition and one extended partition with 3 logical ones. Each is 1 GB.
When
> I run
> disk druid during the installation, it shows me only hda1 and hda2 (with
> unknown type
> 0x0f) while fdisk shows me all the primary, extended and 3 logical
> partitioms.
> disk druid with RH Linux 6.1 seems to work fine. A possible bug with
earlier
> disk druid.

It is. 0x0f signifies a Win95 LBA extended partition. I got it to work by
running the Linux fdisk and tagging the partition , using 't' to 0x5 , which
is again  the ID for an extended partition.The earlier RH installers cannot
recognise LBA extended partitions.

> - pankaj
>

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