>Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 13:20:43 +0200
>To: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@beverly.kleinbus.org>
>From: Richard PLOIX <richard.ploix@gsi.fr>
>Subject: Re: disklabel number of partition ?
>In-Reply-To: <20000630212705.A3692@beverly.kleinbus.org>
>References: <3.0.5.32.20000630102531.0088d460@sirius.gsi.fr>; from Richard
PLOIX on Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 10:25:31AM +0200>
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<3.0.5.32.20000630102531.0088d460@sirius.gsi.fr>
>
>hello again,
>sorry I expain again my problem.
>ok, I begin:
>I have two harddisks on my i386, the first is the principal msdos
partition C:,
>the second is the msdos extend partition with four logical partition, D:,
E:, F:, G:.
>at this time, I can see C: on sd0e,
>and I can see D:, E:, F: on sd1f, sd1g, sd1h.
>I need another location like sd1i to see the G: partition.
>now I think that you understand me.
>somebody tell me that it is possible to recompile the kernel with
>a new value fo the MAXPARTITION. I'am not expert to know that.
>bye.
>R.
> 
>
>At 21:27 30/06/00 +0200, you wrote:
>>On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 10:25:31AM +0200, Richard PLOIX wrote:
>>> I want to know if it is possible to have more than 8 partitions in the
>>> disklabel ?
>>> for example : sd0a, sd0b, sd0c, sd0d, sd0e, sd0f, sd0g, sd0h, 
>>> and now for an extra disk, I need an other partition, sd0i.
>>> I need this for my 5th msdos partition.
>>> or in a last use, is it possible to make it on disklabel sd1?
>>
>>Now I'm sure I don't know what you want...
>>
>>do you want an additional disk? It has its own disk label/partition table.
>>
>>do you want more partitions on the same disk? Then proceed as adviced a 
>>few messages ago.
>>
>>Regards,
>>	-is
>>
>>