If you go for manual partitioning, you'll have options like
/dev/hda1,
/dev/hda2, etc. /dev/hda1 is your Windows C drive, so leave it
alone.
/dev/hda2 is (most likely) what is known as an extended partition -
one
who's only purpose is to contain other partitions.
that would be /dev/hda4 afaik.
These other partitions will be numbered /dev/hda5, /dev/hda6 and up. You will probably not have anything other than hda1 and hda2, so
choose
Also his d drive will most likely be a normal dos partition /dev/hda2.
I seem to recall from my early days that the deleted >D: will show up as /dev/hda5. Something to do with windows fdisk only >being able to create one primary partition. I *may* of course be wrong. I >presently do all my partitioning using linux fdisk.
Sharukh.
a simple "/sbin/parted" + print in RH9.0 or cfdisk in most other distros reveals the partition table layout. Use knoppix to find out if you are unsure. has cfdisk
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