Re: Upgrading from stable to testing with apt-get?

From: Monique Y. Herman (spam_at_bounceswoosh.org)
Date: 12/31/03

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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 11:23:01 -0700

    On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 at 17:02 GMT, Josh Robinson penned:
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    >> Your must have set your partitions up as logical partitions. Logical
    >> partitions start at 5.
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    > how wonderfully, err, logical
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    Logical vs. Primary. Logical partitions are a work-around for the fact
    that you can only have four primary partitions. So 1-4 are reserved for
    primary partitions, and logical partitions start at 5.

    See, it *is* logical =)

    I'm not sure why you can only have four primary partitions, nor whether
    the logical partition scheme (which after all sounds like a hack) has
    any pitfalls. 

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monique
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