[ILUG] dying hard disc - upgrade questions?

[Brian Foster]

  | Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 21:26:57 +0100
  | From: Liam Bedford <lbedford at lbedford.org>
  | 
  | On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 08:56:07PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
  | > What if you make hda3 _and_ hda4 extended partitions?
  | > (I can't do this, but you seemed to suggest it is possible.)
  | I haven't tried it.. to do it on this machine would involve deleting
  | partitions to try.. :(

 according to some of the very confusing docs I read,
 this does work --- for Linux --- but most(?) other
 software fails to grok it.   not surprising:  when
 you start considering branching the chain (having
 (multiple) sub-chains), it rapidly becomes very
 confusing and seemingly difficult to check/use.

 I did half-heartedly try this when installing SUSE 9.1,
 but the installer wouldn't let me do it.  which is Ok,
 I was only probing for curiosity's sake, and had _no_
 intention of actually committing to such a layout.

cheers!
	-blf-
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