Help with partitioning - urgent

[ups]

Carsten Wrote: 
> 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
> 
> 
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I believe there isn't, but mentioned it just to be on the safe side,
especially if someone is going to have a dual-boot system with Windows
on it.


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