Bug 5179

Summary:	Linux partitionning bad recognized by Windows 98
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	crousseau
Component:	installer	Assignee:	Jay Turner <jturner>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.0	CC:	srevivo
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
URL:	crousseau@bnp.fr
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Description crousseau 1999-09-17 07:02:32 UTC

If trying and install Linux with many partitions (/, /usr,
/usr/local, /home, /tmp, ......) which obliges Linux to
create an extended partition, this partition is detected by
Windows 98 as a new logical disk (which produces a pretty
good looking offset in the drives letters). This is not like
that with Windows NT.
The solution i took was to create only 3 large partitions :
/, /usr and SWAP, but that's not fair with UNIX
administration.

Comment 1 Jay Turner 2000-02-08 13:24:59 UTC

This is not a bug, but rather the way that Win98 is treating linux partitions.
You said yourself that NT does not have this problem.