cfdisk and extended primary option (0x05)

[zillah]

you ARE doing this from a LiveCD....yes ?

Yes , I am doing this form a Live CD.

If not - boot to LiveCD using Knoppix26 1

Which version 26 1 is ? Is it same as V4 ?

Which HDD are you having trouble with ???

I can not create an extended partition on any one of these hard disks,,,I want to learn how to create an extended partition (for future use,,,because right now I have alreday created one).

and also post the output of

I will be glad to do that, But if I want to learn how to create an extended partition, do I need to provide the output ?

[|enouf|]

1. I asked for cfdisk output - not parted
2. I asked which disk .....both, you say ? ok - HDD #2 already has too many primary partitions, but if you answer #1, i may have a better answer ..*if* you tell me "what" it looked like "before" system commander

I will be glad to do that, But if I want to learn how to create an extended partition, do I need to provide the output ?

3. Yes !

i have no idea which version of knoppix you are using ....

'knoppix 1' will boot to kernel 2.4 at runlevel1 - text mode, no GUI, logged in as root
'knoppix26 1' will boot to kernel 2.6 at runlevel1 - text mode, no GUI, logged in as root

[zillah]

OH.....BTW -- if you're trying for a Win95/98 Extended partition, the ID = 0x0F

I have not noticed the above before, I have just read it. I think this was my problem, I used to use 0x05, see the code below.

What is the difference between 0x05 and 0x0F ?

01 FAT12                 4F QNX4.x 3rd part       A8 Darwin UFS
 02 XENIX root            50 OnTrack DM            A9 NetBSD
 03 XENIX usr             51 OnTrack DM6 Aux1      AB Darwin boot
 04 FAT16 <32M            52 CP/M                  B7 BSDI fs
 05 Extended             53 OnTrack DM6 Aux3      B8 BSDI swap
 06 FAT16                 54 OnTrackDM6            BB Boot Wizard hidden
 07 HPFS/NTFS             55 EZ-Drive              BE Solaris boot
 08 AIX                   56 Golden Bow            BF Solaris
 09 AIX bootable          5C Priam Edisk           C1 DRDOS/sec (FAT-12)
 0A OS/2 Boot Manager     61 SpeedStor             C4 DRDOS/sec (FAT-16 <
 0B W95 FAT32             63 GNU HURD or SysV      C6 DRDOS/sec (FAT-16)
 0C W95 FAT32 (LBA)       64 Novell Netware 286    C7 Syrinx
 0E W95 FAT16 (LBA)       65 Novell Netware 386    DA Non-FS data
 0F W95 Ext'd (LBA)       70 DiskSecure Multi-Boo  DB CP/M / CTOS / ...
 10 OPUS                  75 PC/IX                 DE Dell Utility
 11 Hidden FAT12          80 Old Minix             DF BootIt
 12 Compaq diagnostics    81 Minix / old Linux     E1 DOS access

1. I asked for cfdisk output - not parted

I am going to delete these partitions and create new partitions by using cfdisk (for practicing create extended primary),,,,This is the output for cfdisk

Partition Table for /dev/hda

         ---Starting---      ----Ending----    Start     Number of
 # Flags Head Sect Cyl   ID  Head Sect Cyl     Sector    Sectors
-- ----- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----------- -----------
 1  0x80    1    1    0 0x07  254   63 1023          63    30716217
 2  0x00  254   63 1023 0x0C  254   63 1023    30716280     6136830
 3  0x00  254   63 1023 0x07  254   63 1023    36853110    41303115
 4  0x00    0    0    0 0x00    0    0    0           0           0

And for fdisk -l as well.

root@1[knoppix]# fdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40016019456 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1        1912    15358108+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2            1913        2294     3068415    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda3            2295        4865    20651557+   7  HPFS/NTFS

I have no idea which version of knoppix you are using

V4

[|enouf|]

What is the difference between 0x05 and 0x0F ?

http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partition...n_types-1.html

...This is the output for cfdisk
[ snipped ]

No - it's not what I asked for ....that was the "TABLE" output of cfdisk you posted - my earlier post shows you what you should paste.......No worry though it's not important anymore.

And for fdisk -l as well.

root@1[knoppix]# fdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40016019456 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1        1912    15358108+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2            1913        2294     3068415    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda3            2295        4865    20651557+   7  HPFS/NTFS

Good job -- we can see the file system types

V4

as in
4.0 ?
4.0.1?
4.0.2?
CD or DVD ? .....meh nevermind, any Knoppix 4.x version will auto boot 2.6 kernel (that's why I asked -- for ex; Knoppix 3.6 will boot 2.4 normally, but you can make it boot 2.6 using the bootcode linux26 or knoppix26)

[nad]

You already have an extended partition on this drive. Only one extended partition is allowed.

[zillah]

You already have an extended partition on this drive.

I had created that partition by using system commander not cfdisk utility,,,

Only one extended partition is allowed.

You are right, I am aware of that.

No - it's not what I asked for

I followed these steps:

$ sudo cfdisk 
then select -> Print 
then select -> Table 
anyfilename (leave it blank)

as in
4.0 ?
4.0.1?
4.0.2?
CD or DVD ?

V4.0.1 CD.

[|enouf|]

I followed these steps:
$ sudo cfdisk
then select -> Print
then select -> Table
anyfilename (leave it blank)
[/code]

doh! ....you are right! My apologies...I've been doing -s-o- many things at once, I forget the specifics between different forums/users, and / or get confused sometimes . I guess I "originally" asked for it that way to see if you indeed had an 0x05 entry, or an 0x0f, or 0x0c like I have for hda1 (0c) and hda2 (0f) -- I tried bolding that entry with the tags, but it seems [b ][/b ] isn't working in this forum while "within" [code ] tags.

V4.0.1 CD.

Excellent
BTW - I've seen that error before (on my box) with one of these Linux disk utilities -- it's just the drive translation thing -- I don't "think" it's anything to be too concerned about

[zillah]

I tried bolding that entry with the tags, but it seems [b ][/b ] isn't working in this forum while "within" [code ] tags.

I was about to ask you the same question, but I received your quoted above, then I realized , may be we can not use bold phrase within code

[Harry Kuhman]

I tried bolding that entry with the tags, but it seems [b ][/b ] isn't working in this forum while "within" [code ] tags.

I was about to ask you the same question, but I received your quoted above, then I realized , may be we can not use bold phrase within code

Code, by it's very nature, would want to show all of the bracketed things that get processed by the display routines otherwise.
That way, I can tell someone if they want to include a link to an external site they should use a format like this:

You can search for that yourself here.

and the result will be:
You can search for that yourself here.

[|enouf|]

Code, by it's very nature, would want to show all of the bracketed things that get processed by the display routines otherwise.
That way, I can tell someone if they want to include a link to an external site they should use a format like this:

You can search for that yourself here.

and the result will be:
You can search for that yourself here.

You're right Harry....
AFAIK -- It (code tags) are meant to maintain the ASCII output, using a monospace font
I should have used the "quote" tags (and must be thinking of this elsewhere) - to set apart and box any needed bolded commands, etc..