At 02:32 AM 5/25/02 +0530, AJ wrote:
After you delete /dev/hda5 and create two partitions, they would no longer be hda5 and hda6. When you delete the hda5 partition, all the subsequent partitions would be renumbered to start from 5 and the two new Linux partitions would become hda9 and hda10. fdisk will also give a message saying that the partition numbers are not in order.
I did all that, but fdisk did not give me any error at all.
You can correct this by first going to 'extra functionality mode' using the 'x' command and then by using the 'f' command to fix the partition order.
There was no 'f' option in the 'extra functionality mode' !
I checked using cfdisk but it panicked saying that "the partitions are enlarged and it is recommended that you wipe your disk clean !"
I checked using Dos fdisk... guess what it did? It performed an illegal operation.
But other partitions seem all right (under windows).
thanks, quasi p.s. I dont have the latest Debian installation disks, else I would I tried an install... but then I may try with my older rel 2 disks... let us see...