From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from sj-msg-core-4.cisco.com (sj-msg-core-4.cisco.com [171.71.163.10]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C460482A for ; Tue, 1 Jan 2002 21:38:51 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 20:38:48 -0800 From: Christian Suder To: "Nick Papadonis" Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] DISREGARD 0.9.3 installer didn't set 712 bootable Message-Id: <20020101203848.1634246f.csuder@cisco.com> In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On 01 Jan 2002 23:21:27 -0500 "Nick Papadonis" wrote: > > One other thing I noticed, is that more then 4 partitions couldn't be > created on my 2 gigabyte drive. The disk partition utility informs > that the unused space is 'unusable'? > The standard fdisk utility in Linux is pretty PC-ish, so you can only have 4 primary partitions. However you can create one of them as "extended" partition, and within this partition you can create additional ones, Christian