On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, J. T. D'souza wrote:
On Wednesday 13 August 2003 11:26, Philip S Tellis wrote:
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Linlov L wrote:
If you go for manual partitioning, you'll have options like
/dev/hda1,
/dev/hda2, etc. /dev/hda1 is your Windows C drive, so leave it
alone.
/dev/hda2 is (most likely) what is known as an extended partition -
one
who's only purpose is to contain other partitions.
that would be /dev/hda4 afaik.
These other partitions will be numbered /dev/hda5, /dev/hda6 and up. You will probably not have anything other than hda1 and hda2, so
choose
Also his d drive will most likely be a normal dos partition /dev/hda2.
I seem to recall from my early days that the deleted D: will show up as /dev/hda5. Something to do with windows fdisk only being able to create one primary partition. I *may* of course be wrong. I presently do all my partitioning using linux fdisk.
Sharukh.