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 > [...]
 > from Sunsite. Made boot and root disks.  Then use fdisk
 > to create linux native and swap.  However, after creating
 > linux native, I'm not allowed to create linux swap.  At the
 > moment, I recalled the limitation of 4 partitions on a hard disk.
 > Is this still true to Linux??

Yes and No. It's limited to 4 _PRIMARY_ partitions. So just put the additional
partition(s) you need in some logical ones (see below).

 > 1. DOS (partition 1, primary)
 > 2. os2 bootmanager (partition 2)
 > 3. os2 root drive (partition 3, logical)

Create an additional extended partition. Then the logical ones. Ready to go..
(you may - if there is - also use the empty space on the extended partition on
which "os2 root drive" resides). Got it?

bye,
    Peter

I've had some success with bootmanager:  I also have four
primary partitions, with DOS and Linux and os2.  Slackware
on the TransAmeritech CDROM (copied to a DOS hard drive as
intermediary) worked smoothly enough, better than bsd.
Partitions look like this:
1. Dos (primary)
2. Bootmanager (primary)
3. Linux (primary)
4. OS/2 extended (4a=FAT-16; 4b=HPFS)
[4b above is the fourth "primary" with the secondary boot
record for OS/2, and 4a is visible to both DOS and OS/2]
The only hangup was getting Linux to install a secondary
boot record on root so that boot manager could see it: BE
SURE TO HAVE BOOTMANAGER SET UP THE LINUX PARTITION FIRST,
FORMAT IT WITH DOS OR OS/2 AND THEN INSTALL LINUX.
        If you have questions, please email.

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