[lug] partitioning limits on scsi/RH (KRUD) 8.0

[D. Stimits]

I'm playing with partitioning on a RH 8.0 (KRUD) machine, to old scsi uw 
drives. I'm trying to perhaps get more partitions than is possible, 
because I want a lot of /boot/ partitions.

I notice that I can make only one extended partition (which can hold 
four logical partitions), and wonder why? It seems the most I can make 
are 3 primary partitions and 1 extended which contains 4 logicals. 
Somewhere I swear I'd seen logicals beyond partition 9 (e.g., /dev/sda9 
through /dev/sda12). Can anyone enlighten me on this, perhaps it was on 
a non-Linux version of UNIX?

Also, vfat was supposed to have broken the 2 GB limit quite a while 
back, although apparently win98 only has the ability to go beyond 2 GB 
partition size in later versions (mine seems to be too old, it is one of 
the very first). However, I'd hoped the mkfs.vfat provided with KRUD 8.0 
would have the ability to go beyond 2 GB, but apparently it does not. Is 
there some possibility of altering something such as a block size to 
trick it into going beyond 2 GB (even if my 98 CD won't see it...if my 
98 CD and install floppy can't see or go beyond 2 GB, then that leaves 
me with linux to do it)? The partitions are definitely under 1024 
cylinders, though even that shouldn't matter with scsi.

D. Stimits, stimits AT attbi DOT com