On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 01:33:33PM -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Stephen Liu wrote: > > > Hi Joe, > > > > Thanks for your advice. Problem solved now. > > > > I used the boot diskette booting RH9 box automatically. Then after "fsck > > /dev/hdeX' all partitions the box revived. > > > > The remaining problem is 'thunderbird' can't start. It is 'thunderbird' > > causing the collapse of the box. I shall solve this problem separately. > > > > One thing I could not resolve; > > > > # fdisk -l > > > > Disk /dev/hde: 10.2 GB, 10245537792 bytes > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1245 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/hde1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux > > /dev/hde2 14 78 522112+ 82 Linux swap > > /dev/hde3 79 736 5285385 83 Linux > > /dev/hde4 737 1245 4088542+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) > > /dev/hde5 737 1245 4088511 83 Linux > > > > According to my recollection I only created 4 partitions > > > > /boot > > /swap > > /root > > /home > > > > How can a 5th partition come? Is it > > > > /boot hde1 > > /swap hde2 > > /root hde3 > > /home hde5 > > > > Is /hde4 the extended partition of /hde3, I have not created it if I > > remember correctly. How can it come. > > A disk can only have four "primary" partitions, so the usual practice of > Disk-Druid (the install-phase partitioning tool) is to create up to three > primaries and an "extended" partition. Within the extended partition, you > can allocate up to 16 (IIRC) "logical" partitions. Creating the extended > partition automatically allows for some flexibility later, if you want to > split /home into smaller blocks.. > > > > > Could you please shed me some light. > > HTH. > > > > > Thanks > > > > B.R. > > Stephen > > ---end quoted text--- Correct me if I'm wrong... If he has windows installed he can only create 2 primary parition and the last one must by an extended partion which holds all the other partitions. Why Linux sees the windows partition as the forth partition, idonno, but that's the way it works. If he doesn't have windows installed on /dev/hde, which I don't think Windows will install itself on hde...then he needs to change that paritions type and make it a Linux parition, and mount it /opt /var or something. Do you suppose /dev/hde is a used disk and he left the windows partition there? Like I said, I think windows has to be installed on the primary disk, /dev/hda to work. /dev/hde is the forth ide drive! jay -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
