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> Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD's partition layout incompatible with Win98? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9810111831470.7123-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199810100745.JAA15232@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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