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MaXimum SMOKE · 12-18-2002, 08:23 PM

Are you sure you are using 3 primary partitions for RH? Assuming your primary drive is IDE, then the partitions in use would be hda1, hda2, hda3, and hda4 if all were primary. This generally is not the norm. If you have partitions numbered hda5, or larger, these are not primary. Generally, for like one of my installs the /boot partition is primary, and the rest are non-primary. Please note however, that when you start creating non-primary partitions, (and you can have a lot of them), you use up 1 primary to hold the nonprimary partitions) Please note, if you have free disk space, you can probably create a fat 32 with linux fdisk (as non primary), I doubt windows would know the difference and would allow you to format it as fat 32. (Sorry, no experience with partition magic on this end....)

12-18-2002, 08:23 PM	#8
MaXimum SMOKE Member (8 bit) Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 229	Are you sure you are using 3 primary partitions for RH? Assuming your primary drive is IDE, then the partitions in use would be hda1, hda2, hda3, and hda4 if all were primary. This generally is not the norm. If you have partitions numbered hda5, or larger, these are not primary. Generally, for like one of my installs the /boot partition is primary, and the rest are non-primary. Please note however, that when you start creating non-primary partitions, (and you can have a lot of them), you use up 1 primary to hold the nonprimary partitions) Please note, if you have free disk space, you can probably create a fat 32 with linux fdisk (as non primary), I doubt windows would know the difference and would allow you to format it as fat 32. (Sorry, no experience with partition magic on this end....)