Quote Originally Posted by ph349397

What does "extended" mean for the /dev/hda4 partition? It looks like you described the suggested size for the other partitions but for the /dev/hda4 partition you've written "extended".
You can only have 4 primary partitions. If you only had 4 partitions then they would look like this:

/dev/hda1 primary
/dev/hda2 primary
/dev/hda3 primary
/dev/hda4 primary

But, since you need more than 4 partitions then basically partition #4 is going to include the remainder of the disc and all subsequent partitions will be created inside of it so it is called 'extended'. It just means "A partition that is holding other partitions." Those other partitions are called "logical drives".

It's actually just a workaround on the limitation of 4 partitions.

Boot the Knoppix cd, open a term and do this:

sudo cfdisk

You can delete and create partitions all day- just don't use the write function and nothing will actually be changed. Here's a little how-to on cfdisk. Basically- you can use it to practice creating partitions and hopefully learn a little about partitions while you're at it.