Well earlier yesterday and today I was banging right along with Linux.
I was able to tell Linux to boot from the hard disk and mount the root from
the hard disk (/dev/hd1). I used ShoeLace to do this.

THEN I tried to activate swapping on /dev/hd2.  No joy.  mkswap told me I
couldn't use the second partition because it was a DOS extended partition.

So, I proceded to try to change the partition type with 'edpart', which
seemed to work, until I tried to re-boot using the hard disk.  NO JOY!

It now would not boot!  Fortunately I had a bootable rootable floppy, which
I then proceeded to boot from.  When I then ran 'fdisk', it said that
/dev/hd3 and /dev/hd4 were my partitions instead of /dev/hd1 and /dev/hd2!!!!

"Well", I says to myself, "I can live with that.", so I proceeded to install
ShoeLace to use /dev/hd3 as the root.  No Joy.  Upon booting /dev/hd3, it
comes up and says that I still am trying to use /dev/hd1 after I've already
told it I want /dev/hd3!  Pretty wierd, eh kiddies?

So, unless someone has any ideas, I'll just have to run without Swapping
enabled until I or someone else figures out how to get mkswap to accept
a DOS 5 or DOS 3.3 extended partition!

   Any ideas?

   Thanks!
   - David Summers
   (d...@engr.uark.edu)

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