From: Daniel47@teranews.com   
      
   Aragorn wrote:   
   > On Tuesday 03 July 2012 16:26, Daniel47@teranews.com conveyed the   
   > following to alt.os.linux.mandriva...   
   >   
   >> unruh wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 2012-07-03, Daniel47@teranews.com    
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On this HP 6730b Laptop I currently have Windows 7, Mandriva 2009.0   
   >>>> and Mandriva 2010.0 on the 250GB HD and I want to install Mandriva   
   >>>> 2011 and Mageina 2.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Current break up of sda:-   
   >>>> sda1	60GB	NTFS-3G	Windows 7 C:   
   >>>> sda2	22GB	NTFS-3G	Programs D:   
   >>>> sda3	19GB	NTFS-3G	Games E:   
   >>>> sda5	4GB		Linux Swap   
   >>>> sda6	20GB	Ext3	/     Mandriva 2009.0	(15.5GB free)   
   >>>> sda7	18GB	Ext3	/alt  Mandriva 2010.0	(13.6GB free)   
   >>>> sda8	85GB	Ext3	/Home			(57.2GB free)   
   >>   
   >> [...]   
   >>   
   >>>> Side question	What has likely happened to sda4??   
   >>>   
   >>> 1-4 are primary partitions, 5-x are logical. You only have three   
   >>> primary partitions.   
   >   
   > No, he has /four/ primary partitions.  The extended partition container   
   > is itself also a primary partition, since it has its own partition entry   
   > in the partition table of the MBR.   
   >   
   >>> Thus 1-3.   
   >>   
   >> So sda 4 (primary) has become sda's 5-8 (logical)!   
   >   
   > No, /dev/sda4 is now the extended partition container, which contains a   
   > secondary partition table, which in turn contains the partition entries   
   > for /dev/sda5, /dev/sda6, /dev/sda7 and /dev/sda8. ;-)   
   >   
      
   Yeap, in my head that's what I typed last time!! or near enough for me,   
   anyway.   
      
   Thanks, Aragon.   
      
   Daniel   
      
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