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From:	"Joydeep Mitra" <jolly_joydeep AT hotmail DOT com>
To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	RE: Extended partitions (was: FDISK)
Date:	Fri, 30 Nov 2001 15:05:40 +1100
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Reply-To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com

If your question is whether you can have "logical drives" of different OSes 
within your Extended partition, the answer is yes. Nothing will get 
"confused" as the type of the partition is defined in the table that 
corresponds to the logical drive.

Also you can have more than one primary partition - but there must be only 1 
DOS Primary partition. So you can have a NTFS primary partition, a Linux 
primary partition, a DOS primary partition and an Extended Partition. The 
Partition Table in the MBR can have up to 4 entries. Any primary partition 
can be made Active or bootable put Extended partitions cannot.

I think thats enough waffling for the moment :)

Joydeep

>From: "da Silva, Joe" <Joe DOT daSilva AT emailmetering DOT com>
>Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
>To: "'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
>Subject: RE: Extended partitions (was: FDISK)
>Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 10:03:06 +1100
>
>Thanks!
>
>One further question ... Can extended partition chains be a mixture
>of partition types, from different OSes? For example, can DR-DOS
>(say 6.0) and Linux extended partitions be linked in a chain, or will
>this confuse DR-DOS (or similar DOSes)?
>
>Joe.
>


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