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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Can't get it to install
Message-ID: <id.YOJM1.G95@nmti.com>
Sender: peter@nmti.com (peter da silva)
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
References: <40mmfi$sa4@noc.tor.hookup.net> <40rflp$8ud@wolfe.wimsey.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 19:12:56 GMT
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In article <40rflp$8ud@wolfe.wimsey.com>,
Curt Sampson <curt@cynic.portal.ca> wrote:
> Something is very wrong here, since I assume you are talking about
> IBM-PC partitions. An IBM-PC disk can have only four partitions on
> it, so I don't know where you get the fifth one from.

DOS supports "extended partitions" now, where they put an extra partition
table in the last partition pointing to the next four partitions, and so on.
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