On 2009/01/07 08:52 (GMT-0600) L. V. Lammert composed:
Hate to waste three primary partitions on SuSE. As the most 'sophisticated' OS, it *should* be happy living in an extended partition, I would think?
While "living", there is no distinction between logical and primary partitions, so "life" is possible anywhere. The distinction among logicals and primaries on a legacy BIOS wintel PC is all about booting, legacy operating systems, and the total number of partitions possible on a disk. I virtually always create at least 4 primary partitions, the last being the extended, with the extended always being last among the 4 MBR partition table entries. That keeps the logical partition progression equal to the physical partition progression. Whenever I have 4 primaries and any legacy OS on the disk, the legacy OS(s) "C:" goes on 1, or 1 and 2, and #3 is used for a Linux /boot. That means SUSE is always on one or more logicals here. If I don't have any legacy OS on the system, then usually /boot is on #1. And, I never ever put Grub on the MBR. I have more than 30 working puters, most of which have more than one Linux on them, and SUSE more than any other. -- "Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it." Proverbs 22:6 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org