Help with partitioning - urgent

[Carsten]

ups wrote:

Hi,

> You dont need to make the extended partitions active. Only one
> partition can be set active, and you can just set the primary one as
> the active partition.
> 
> So basically, you create a Primary Partition.
> Next you create the extended partitions.
> Make the primary partition active.
> 
> That's all you need to do.

For curiosity: Is there any reason you would need an active partition 
for when using Linux? AFAIK both boot loaders, Grub and Lilo, boot any 
partition they are configured to boot, active or not. The only use I can 
imagine are "broken" BIOS' that don't recognize a harddisk without any 
active partition. In that case it wouldn't matter which one's active, as 
you say. But basically I tend to viewing the active flag as obsolete. Is 
that right?
Carsten