Re: Partitioning trouble

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On 05 Nov 2002 14:53:35 -0600
"Joe D. Trent" <jtrent@bighambrothers.com> wrote:

# 
# I'm not a partioning expert by any stretch of the imagination, but I
# don't believe it will let you have that many primary partitions. If
# I'm understanding you correctly, you are wanting separate partitions
# for"/", "/boot", swap, "/usr" and "/local". With the FAT partition
# included that would give you 6 partitions. Without using some extra
# partitioning software you only get 4. I just deleted my partitions
# (other than the FAT partition), let the installer partition
# automatically and all was well.

You can have 4 partitions.  One of which may be an "extended"
partition, which may hold a number of "logical" partitions.  I'm not
sure what the upper limit is on "logical partitions".

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