From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 10 02:31:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA12729 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 02:31:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA12722 for ; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 02:31:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA00172 for ; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 02:31:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA11166; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 19:00:43 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id TAA20940; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 19:00:40 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19981010190040.Z3369@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 19:00:40 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Christoph Kukulies , freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: FreeBSD disk usage (was: FreeBSD's partition layout incompatible with Win98?) References: <199810100745.JAA15232@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199810100745.JAA15232@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>; from Christoph Kukulies on Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 09:45:17AM +0200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 10 October 1998 at 9:45:17 +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > I'm running a machine which has Win95, WinNT 4.0 and FreeBSD (2.2.6) > installed on one disk. Nothing peculiar theses days. Right, but one day we'll be able to get rid of Microsoft :-) > Now I wanted to upgrade WIn95 to Win98 and the Win98 installation > failed right at the beginning when the setup examined the computer. Sounds like Microsoft. > It said, it cannot cope with a 64KB FAT partition. Hmm, is it that > small slice that FreeBSD always creates when it asks the user > to create a partition layout being compatible with future operating > systems? There shouldn't be any FAT partition that small. FreeBSD doesn't create FAT partitions unless you ask it to. What's the output of FreeBSD fdisk? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message