I discovered :-( that I could overlap partitions and extend partitions beyond the physical end of the drive during Mandrake 7.0 install. I think there are some very big holes in their disk partitioning software.
At 07:18 AM 4/19/2000 , Wandered Inn intimated that...
>I've been doing some research on this thing, and I've found out that the
>two partitions I was having problems with overlap (fdisk option 'v').
>Fortunately, the last partition was empty, so I removed it and recreated
>it.
>
>This is definitely a bug in the Mandrake 7.0 partition package. I used
>it to create the partitions. All I did was define the size of the
>partitions, not the start/end points.
>
>This certainly is not good.
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