[Leaplist] Distro and LAN choices, this works for me!

Robin (Bartow FL) leap-cf.mailbox at gibp.com
Mon Jun 4 09:28:11 EDT 2007


 
> It's a common limitation of Windows regarding *primary* partitions, but
> you can have lots of extended partitions.  Also, it is a Windows
> limitation, GRUB or LILO should be able to work with whatever partition
> setup is chosen.

In order to maintain access to data regardless of OS, I use one extended partition (partition #4) and logical drive space within.

Imaging hard drive partition to hard drive partition minimizes downtime from a disk failure. Again practically no recovery or configuration issues. Imagine if ibiblio.org had done that.

/robin





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