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From: "da Silva, Joe" <Joe DOT daSilva AT emailmetering DOT com>
To: "'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: Extended partitions (was: FDISK)
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 20:24:35 +1100 
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Thanks for that link, it looks quite useful - I think. (A quick check of the
site failed to reveal what OS this software is for (DOS or FreeBSD?), nor
what license is applicable (GPL?). Sigh! Looks like I'll have to download
it, just to find out;-)

Thanks also to the other contributors, particularly Joydeep.

BTW, the information about primary partitions has also been interesting,
however I don't intend to experiment with multiple primary partitions, since
I would prefer a configuration that was compatible with the most types of
OS and versions of DOS as practical.

Joe.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Sandy Archer [SMTP:mrsandy AT flashmail DOT com]
> Sent:	Sunday, December 02, 2001 1:22 AM
> To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
> Subject:	RE: Extended partitions (was: FDISK)
> 
> 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