Partition table still leaves me confused.

[Albert DE WINT <adwint pandora be>]

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the effort of sending those files and tables.
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to sort it out.

First, I tried to mount that Mandrake partition, here's what I got:

[root] # mount -t ext2 /dev/hda6 /mnt Mandrake

	 mount: /dev/hda6 already mounted or /mnt/Mandrake busy
	 mount: according to mtab, /dev/hda6 is mounted on /

My partion table still puzzles me:

   Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120000000000 bytes	
   255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14589 cylinders	
   Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device	  boot Start   End    Blocks   Id  System
  /dev/hda1       9151  4589  43688767+   f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
  /dev/hda2          1  3616  29045488+  17  Hidden HPFS/NTFS
  /dev/hda3   *   3745  9150  43423695   83  Linux
  /dev/hda4       3617  3744   1028160   82  Linux swap
  /dev/hda5       9151  9163    104391   83  Linux
  /dev/hda6       9164 14459  42540088+  83  Linux
  /dev/hda7      14460 14589   1044193+  82  Linux swap

Apparantly, there's 3 Linux partitions + 2 swap. 
I wonder why there's 3.  

/dev/hda5, is very small, but it's not SWAP?
Could this be the partition that's supposed to boot Mandrake?
Can I make it bootable?

Besides, I also wonder about the meaning of the '+' near the block's
sizes.  It's probably of no importance.

Maybe I'd better get rid of anything that's not RED HAT.
Suppose I delete hda1, hda2, hda4, hda6, and hda7, 
would RED HAT still boot?

Anything else I should take care of? Like disabling SWAP?
I have 512 MB on board; 
'top' says I don't use swap, so I don't need it?

That's a lot of questions for one message.
I apologize; feel free to tell me if it's too much.
I don't want to steal your time.

Again, thank you for your kind assistance.

Albert

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