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Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 18:32:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD's partition layout incompatible with Win98?
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On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, 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.
> 
> Now I wanted to upgrade WIn95 to Win98 and the Win98 installation
> failed right at the beginning when the setup examined the computer.
> 
> 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?

Perhaps you have no free partition space on that disk?  FreeBSD may leave
a 64k slice to make sure the slice is cylinder-aligned.

Doug White                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | www.freebsd.org


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