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Date:	Sun, 21 Apr 2002 18:28:34 PST7
From:	<leganii@surfree.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-general@scoug.com
To:	scoug-general@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-General: Re: Partition Magic and Related question

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> Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 12:29:01 PST7
> From: "Michal Necasek"
> To: "scoug-general@scoug.com"
> Subject: SCOUG-General: Re: Partition Magic and Related questio
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>
> On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 10:17:15 PST7, Dallas E. Legan wrote:
>
> >last I heard you could only have 4 primary partitions or
> >3 primaries and 1 extended.)
> >
> More accurately, there is space for 4 partition records
> in the MBR. There can certainly be no more than 4 primary
> partitions per disk. There could theoretically be 4 extended
> partitions in the MBR but it's somewhat pointless because
> a single extended partition can contain practically
> unlimited number of logical drives.

Thanks for the clarification.
I'm certain in the infinite world of PC configuration,
*someone* will find a reason for more than 1 extended partition. :-)

>
> OS/2 2.x (and Linux?) offer the highest flexibility,

Yes, definitly Linux.
Last I heard, no *BSD on this though.

> being able to boot from primary or extended partitions
> located on any disk.
>
> DOS likes to be on a primary partition on first disk
> (ie. C:) and the same goes for Win9x. NT is somewhat
> less restrictive but its boot loader still may need to
> live on primary partition - but AFAIK that can be
> the DOS 7 partition.
>
>
> Michal
>
>
>

Regards,
Dallas E. Legan II / leganii@surfree.com / dallasii@kincyb.com

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