From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 19 18:10:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA21510 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 18:10:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from buddy.palomine.net (qmailr@buddy.palomine.net [205.198.88.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA21505 for ; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 18:10:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjohnson@buddy.palomine.net) Received: (qmail 20070 invoked by uid 500); 20 Jul 1998 01:10:35 -0000 Message-ID: <19980719211035.A20050@palomine.net> Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 21:10:35 -0400 From: Chris Johnson To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, datadave@total.net Subject: Re: FAT32 ?? References: <199807192320.QAA09605@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1 In-Reply-To: <199807192320.QAA09605@hub.freebsd.org>; from questions-digest on Sun, Jul 19, 1998 at 04:20:08PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Uhhh... isn't it time for your medication? > To whom exactly it may concern ? :> > > It is with great appreciation & 'thankfulness, that I address this -question- > to you, with hopes, that you may 'enlighten me, with a couple of rather > simple answers to a couple of rather ' simple ' questions !?.....although as > it may be, perhaps I have underestimated, the actual Complex varibles, which > regards to the fact, that it isn't a very simple process if at all even > possible . I am a complete ' Clutz ' when it comes to these sorts of > situations & would rather ' ask for assitance ' from the -experts like > yourself ?! > > I have a diskette with FAT32 on it ,ready to install. This being my first > problem. I have a Pentium 133 16EDO RAM, utilizing FAT 16??, not FAT32. I > WANT to install FAT32, but ofcourse I do not have any knowledge on wether or > not ,one can just go into DOS & install from there or wehter it is even a > safe situation to bother installing FAT32 ? > > I gather, that I could recover more actual fdisk space ,badly needed. I only > have a 1.2 GiG sized Hard-Drive . I also understand that it is simply better > on one's system to operate utilizing FAT32 ?? There appears to be alot of > space - -wastage- using my present FAT16. > > If it is not too much trouble for you to give me some sort of direction on > this, I'd really appreciate it, because there seems to be alot of different ' > schools of thought on this FAT32 situation, & I do not understand why it is > such a big deal ? I only see installing FAT32 as a definate +plus ?!...but > what if any -risks are involved here. Is it neccessary (hopefully not ) to > install FAT32 on a newly -formatted Hard-Drive ?? Why could'nt I just go > into DOS & install the FAT32 from there ? I am rather confused about it . > My gain as I see it, is the recovery of additional -space -on my small > Hard-Drive . I also understand that it is -apparently better on ones system > because the FAT32 reduces the actual -size- of the clusters ?? and oh yes, > I recently installed the W95OSR2 platform, but as I say, I still only have > the 16(fat?) configuration . So is your -oppinion, that I would benefit from > increasing my existing system to accomodate a FAT32 setup ? > > Thanx very much for any amount of time which U may invest with regards to my > questions here ! Anything I can do inorder to recipricate your kind > endeavours would be much appreciated by me . Please let me know if I can > therefore do something in exchange for your services in the form of advice > here ?! > Sincerely yours , > Dave Hoppe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message