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  From: Andrew Hill <andrew@fornax.net>
  To  : Brian Astill , linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 09:20:17 +1030

RE: The *ULTIMATE* in Linux FUD

At 22:11 29/12/99 +1000, Brian Astill wrote:
>At 18:48 26/12/99 +1030, you wrote:
>>However, you may have noticed that DOS fdisk won't let you create more than
>>one primary partition per drive. 
>
>Sorry.  This isn't.
>DOS fdisk will require that the 1st partition is Primary, the second Extended.
>After this, fdisk WILL permit the formation of two further Primary drives.

Huh! How about that - I never even though of doing things that way around -
shows what an influence those diagrams of HDDs with 3 primary partitions
and then an extended partition on them have had on me :-)

That might have been a good solution for a problem I had a while back - but
I think ditching Windows and going Linux was the best solution :-)

Thanks,

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Andrew Hill, B.Sc.             | "The key to productivity is to
                               | rotate your avoidance techniques."
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