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[Buddy Lindsey <percent20@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ok, thank you for all the help I got it figured out. 

On 8/19/05, Davide Imbeni <davide.imbeni@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> as I understand it, you have it as you want already (almost).
> /dev/hda is the whole disk (from cylinder 0 to 7294, 55.8 GB, not only MBR)
> hda1 and 2 are the two primary partition. In the first one you have
> NT, the second is entirely used by one "extended" partition (hdax with
> x>= 5), currently of type FAT16, where you want to install Linux.
> 
> The thing is, HD can only have 4 primary partitions, so nowadays (I
> saw this before), OS installation procedures suggest you to go
> directly for an primary partition of type "extended", where you can
> put as many secondary as you want. Even if in this case is just one...
> 
> I hope someone is able to explain it better than this, but I think you
> are set already.
> 
> Davide
> 
> On 8/19/05, Buddy Lindsey <percent20@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Ok, I am trying to partition my HD but I don't understand what is
> > going on here. With 9.3 It was easy to understand, but now I am
> > confused it says
> >
> > device       size   type                       start   end
> > /dev/hda    55.8   hts58060m91t00     0        7294
> > /dev/hda1  43.8   HPFS/NTFS           0        5728
> > /dev/hda2  11.9   Extended               5729   7294
> > /dev/hda5  11.9   Win95 FAT16         5729   7294
> >
> > I thought that /dev/hda was the MBR so I don't see how it is 55.8 gb.
> > Now i can understand why /dev/hda1 is 43.8 gig because I set it that
> > big.
> >
> > THe most confusing point is the extended and the win95 partitions are
> > both set to 11.9gig and i cant seem to removee either to change it.
> > Does anyone have any suggestions?  I need to dual boot this system,
> > but don't want to resize it.  I need the 11.9 gig to be the suse
> > partition.  I also can't remove the windows partition at all. Any
> > ideas and help would be appreicated.
> >
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