KR> btw, speaking of linux, linux's fdisk is a heap of shit! i decided to redo 
KR> my install properly with separate paritions for swap and home. first fdisk 
KR> winged like mad because the disk was more than 1 gig in size, then, when i 
KR> split the original partion into 3, it complained that the partitions that 
KR> *it* created were invalid because they overlapped, even though looking at 
KR> them with the "p" option didn't show this. in the end i
used the dos fdisk 
KR> to create the partitions, and used linux's to change these to type 83 and 
KR> 82. a good couple of hours wasted - bah humbug!

 PE> Can you debug the Linux fdisk code and fix the problems you 
 PE> mentioned?  It would be nice to have an fdisk that worked.
 PE> Don't tell me I'm going to have the same problems installing
 PE> Linux on my 2 gig drive that I am having with OS/2?  
 PE> BFN.  Paul.

 whether i have the ability, i don't know. i do know that i have neither
the time nor the inclination at present. based on my observations, there is
probably not a problem if you make the partitions with another fdisk, and
then just use the linux one to change their type. linux, or at least the
version that i have complains in several places about disks having more
than 1024 cylinders, but seems to work anyway.

                   keith
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