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At 03:05 PM 11/30/01 +1100 Joydeep Mitra wrote like this:
>
>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.
>

There is a lot of information on partitions at Ranish's Partition Manager
site which is worth reading.

http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/

HTH

Sandy Archer