/dev/hda2 should be the Extended partition. For your first HDD, its not the case. I think the partitions are numbered in the sequence any detected Primary, detected Extended, then the ones inside Extended. hdx1 to hdx4 are kept for the four main (for a lack of better term) partitions (i.e. upto a max of 4 primary or 3 primary and one extended). hdx5 onwards are given to the ones encountered inside the Extended partitions.
Thats what I've seen on my installs. If your FC is working (as it obviously is), then maybe my reasoning is off-target.
Well I found out the error ...... If you can see the entry for my extended partition , it says cylinder 1276 to cylinder 4865 . so , a partition from 1914 to 3591 (ie hda4 shown above) should be a logical partition inside this extended partition. But the partition hda4 above , from 1914 to 3591 is listed as a primary partition . So cylinders 1914 to 3591 were being counted twice causing the windoze partition manager to report my 40GB HDD as 59GB hdd. , and Gparted to not detect any partitions at all. Screw M$ and Winblows. Also I dunno how FC5 was working just great even with that error. I have to keep a copy of XP so that my local internet provider can debug it when the connection goes down, he cant use Linux at all, else I would have junked it for good.
Also i want to know how to configure pppoe in Ubuntu. What I did in
Break into its config file somewhere in /etc/ppp. I forgot to check it when hopping back from Linux. You will have to do a pppoe <some option> to get your access concentrators listed, I believe.
I found out from the man pages that the kernel mode pppoe installed in Ubuntu cannot handle multiple access concentrators. Its designed to be used with Triband etc ie.DSL modems. If you have only one service on your LAN its ok, else you have to use rp-pppoe package from roaringpenguin website. It also has a GUI config utility to enter service name. Posting from Ubuntu Dapper now, its great but I just say not easy to configure repos in synaptic as Fedora/Yum . The utility itself is great but the default repo config did not work for me and had to be edited manually as it had some in.ubuntu... mirrors listed which gave 404 errors.
अिनकॆत (Aniket) wrote:
Well I found out the error ...... If you can see the entry for my extended partition , it says cylinder 1276 to cylinder 4865 .
I just consider myself lucky not to confront such problems (HDD ones, my net-wala is as bad as yours). Phew!
Ubuntu cannot handle multiple access concentrators. Its designed to be used with Triband etc ie.DSL modems. If you have only one service on your LAN its ok, else you have to use rp-pppoe package from roaringpenguin website. It also has a GUI config utility to enter service name.
I tried 'sudo pppoeconf' in Dapper today. It didn't ask for access concentrators, but there was a step where it searched for them. Typically there are 3-4 such concentrators on my LAN out of which one works officially, one un-officially and the rest are some freak pppoe services. But in Dapper, I didn't have to worry (just yet - crosses fingers). The net works just fine.
Posting from Ubuntu Dapper now, its great but I just say not easy to configure repos in synaptic as Fedora/Yum . The utility itself is great but the default repo config did not work for me and had to be edited manually as it had some in.ubuntu... mirrors listed which gave 404 errors.
Teething errors are many. I haven't transferred my stuff fully. I'm having problems setting up Firestarter. Just popped back from my second Dapper (re)install.
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