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From: "Glenn McCorkle" <glennmcc AT cisnet DOT com>
Organization: Arachne Fan Club
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 20:01:21 -0500
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To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: DRDOS FDISK
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 At one time, I had 3 primary partitions  and 1 extended partition
on this 5.7gig drive.
1st primary partition has OpenDos v7.01
2nd has W95
3rd *had* W98 on it.
The extended partition *had* 5 logical drives

 I have since deleted W98 and used it's space for 3 additional 500mb
logical drives.

 So it now has just 2 primary and 1 extended.
(with 8 logical drives in the extended partition)

And as soon as I get my hands on an SCSI CD-RW... W95 is going down the tubes.
(the only reason it's still on this HDD is the fact that I need it to
 for writing to the IDE CD-RW)

 I used Fdisk from OpenLinux v2.3 to create all of these partitions.

 To switch OSs.... all I do is run Fdisk for the OS I am currently booted
into and change which partition is "active".

When I reboot, the active partition is the one whose OS is booted.

If I want to boot into Linux, all I do is run Fdisk after booting
OpenDos and restore the MBR which has LILO in it.
When I reboot, LILO boots the second physical drive.
(OpenLinux is on it's own 1.2gig drive)

 To put things back the way they were..... choose "dos" in the LILO boot
menu and run OpenDos Fdisk again. This time I rewrite the MBR with the
"standard" OpenDos MBR
The MBR containing LILO is saved into a file in the root directory.
OLDMBR.BIN can then be restored at a later date.

 I addition to all of this,
I always use GDISK.EXE to hide my DOS aprtitions from W95
(that way it's impossible for that Wincrap to mess-up my Dos drives) ;-)

On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 00:35:34 -0400, fernande AT internet1 DOT net wrote:

> How do you do 2 primary partitions?  I usually do a primary and an
> exteneded and then make a logical DOS drive in the extended partition,
> but wondered if there were other/better ways to partition my HD.

-- 
 Glenn
(your friendly neighborhood compu-nerd)
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