On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 08:34 -0500, Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote: > On 2/14/06, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >>Dual Boot: Windows 2003 Server and FC4. Layout - > > >> > > >>/dev/hda1 is Windows 2003 server 10GB > > >>/dev/hda2 is Linux /boot > > >>/dev/hda3 is Swap > > >>/dev/hda4 is extended with only /root on /dev/hda5 > > >> > > >>Students were asked by another instructor to delete Partition 0 > > >>(Windows 2003) and split it into 2 logical partitions. > > >> > > >>Student comes to me and asks if that is even possible and I reply "Not > > >>with Windows." > > > In this example, isn't /dev/hda4 an extended partition, and not a > > primary partition? If it were a primary partition, then we could > > delete the first primary partition, and make it an extended > > partition and split it up. > > Agreed - but in this case hda4 is the extended partition and the > instructor wanted the student to delete hda1 (using Windows) and split > it into two logical partitions. > > I spoke with all parties involved and they have agreed not to make the > Linux students (IE my students) do that step -- plus they wont be > graded badly for it. > > I said if this is a project layout issue I would have Linux and > Windows partitions setup that way to start with next term. This way > hda1 is extended with all partitions logical. > Test it before making them all that way. IIRC there has been some problems with trying to boot Linux when the /boot partition is not a primary partition. I have never tried putting /boot in an extended partition myself, but there has been some traffic here about it and as I recall, the consensus was "you can't do that". > =) > -- > WC -Sx- Jones | http://ccsh.us/ | Open Source Consulting >
