Actually, I seem to recall that dos and win9x/me all want exactly one primary partition with everything else in one to four logical partitions in an extended partition. I've never actually had a problem with two or more primary partitions but there is a MS KB article citing possible data loss. I've alwaysb assumed that there is a rarely used part of windows that will do something spectacular if it finds the extra primary partitions. Of course, this only applies to (V)FAT. Primary partitions of other types are invisible as always. Josh ___SIG___ On Thu, 24 May 2001, Munir Nassar wrote: > not necessarily true, i usually put a /boot ext2 > partition at the beginning of the drive (back in the > days of the old lilo) and after that i put windows... > the only thing it really needs it > > A) it be a primary partition > B) there be no more than 4 primary partitions on the > drive (you can have more if they are hidden primaries) > > -munir > --- "Andy Zbikowski (Zibby)" <zibby at ringworld.org> > wrote: > > Windows will only boot from the first partition on > > the primiary hard > > drive. Though with some lilo tricks your can get it > > to boot off the first > > partition of any harddrive. > > > > | Andrew S. Zbikowski | Home: 763.591.0977 | > > | http://www.ringworld.org | Work: 763.428.9119 | > > | http://www.itouthouse.com | PCS: 612.306.6055 | > > | His power apparently lies in his ability to | > > | choose incompetent enemies. | > > | - Crow T. Robot, MST3K, "Prince of Space" | > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > tclug-list mailing list > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > ===== > -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- > Version: 3.12 > GAT GIT dpu- s:- a19 C++ UL P+ L+(++) E--- W+ N+ w(--) K? O-- M- V- PS+ PE-(--) Y-- PGP-(---) t 5+++ X R tv-- b+++ D++ DI++ G e+ h+() r- y+ UF++ > ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices > http://auctions.yahoo.com/ > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >