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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!univ-lyon1.fr!news-rocq.inria.fr!news2.EUnet.fr!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news2.harvard.edu!oitnews.harvard.edu!news.sesqui.net!uuneo.neosoft.com!nmtigw!peter 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 Lines: 13 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. -- Peter da Silva (NIC: PJD2) `-_-' Bailey Network Management 'U` 1601 Industrial Blvd. Sugar Land, TX 77478 USA +1 713 274 5180 "Har du kramat din varg idag?"