Re: [ossig] installation

[Teoh Eng Sin <teohes@streamyx.com>]

On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 17:33, Seah Hong Yee wrote:

> Please note that in x86 architecture 4 logical partition is the
> maximum you can have. Because swap partition cannot be an extended
> partition, I believe this is likely the problem you faced.  My
> personal advice is to install this on a second hard disk.
> 

a minor correction:  there's no reason why swap cannot be on an extended
partition.  attached is my disk partition listing,  you will see that
/dev/hda8 (on an extended partiotion) is my swap.

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# fdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4864 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1             1         4     32098+  de  Dell Utility
/dev/hda2   *         5      1661  13309852+   c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda3          1662      1674    104422+  83  Linux
/dev/hda4          1675      4864  25623675    f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5          1675      3796  17044933+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6          3797      4572   6233188+  83  Linux
/dev/hda7          4573      4637    522081   83  Linux
/dev/hda8          4638      4734    779121   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda9          4735      4864   1044193+  83  Linux
======================================================


> 
> Teoh Eng Sin <teohes@streamyx.com>


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