[members at lugog] Dualboot partition

[Douglas Phillips]

Thanks Alan,

Good to know it /can/ be done, I will read more.   I can afford to 
totally cock it up as there is nothing to lose.
Douglas

Alan Levett wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 February 2010 12:00 pm, Douglas Phillips wrote:
>
>   
>> Gparted says I can only have 4 partitions (which are
>> already there and undeletable) so there is no free space just lots of
>> this unallocatable stuff!
>>
>>     
> True. This is an "overhang" (I believe) from the days before M$ programers 
> realised that you can use the thumbs and fingers of both hands to count!
> But my hda has 10 partitions to accomodate both Mepis and Debian, all set up 
> with GParted and reference to books on Linux.
> Hda1 - 3 are Mepis,  hda4 (the last Partition of 60 Gigs) is Extended, and 
> subdivides into hda5 - 10. This is for Debian.
> So it can be done.
>
> Regards      Alan.
>
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