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Primary partitions for linux.....
Why does Linux need to be on a primary partition to boot? Is there a way around this? Why am I allowed to make on 3 primary partitions with cfdisk and fdisk? Could someone please clue me in.
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linux does not need to be on a primary partition to boot, mine is on hda5 and hda8, both of which are logical partitions in what dos considers to be an extended partition.
I read somewhere that since the later versions of dos you could actually make more than one primary partition & dos (& windows) would accept them OK. MS's fdisk couldn't create them but some proprietary partitioning programs could.
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I was running through the web for info for partitioning ever since i touch knoppix, the best info (to my knowledge) lies here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_(IBM_PC)
hope that helps!!
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you actually can create 4 primary partitions, or 3 primary and one "extended" that in its turn can have lots of partitions, even with DOS fsdisk,
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