Re: PLEASE HELP! Can't setup Boot Mgr, DOS, OS/2 & Linux

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From: Rod May
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 00:00

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John Krivitsky <jk@cs.curtin.edu.au> writes:

>I would like to set up partitions as follows:
>        C:      DOS
>        D:      OS/2
>                Linux
>                Linux Swap
>                Boot Manager
>followed the instructions and created these partitions under OS/2. I made DOS a
>primary, OS/2 and Linux both Extended Logical.
>The problem is that when I boot Linux and run FDISK, I can only see three
>partitions: DOS (>32M), OS/2 Boot Manager and `Extended'. It seems to have
>lumped OS/2 and both the Linux partitions into one chunk, and I can't change
>the individual Linux partition to Linux Native.
>What am I doing wrong?

What version of fdisk are you using?
Some do have bugs with Extended partitions....
You can also afford to give Linux a primary,
and you don't need a Boot manager that takes up a partition...

>Please reply by e-mail to:
>                jk@cs.curtin.edu.au

well........no thanks. this is usenet you know...

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Date: 1995/09/22
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