From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 11 21:21:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA16231 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 11 Dec 1998 21:21:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from chopin.seattleu.edu (chopin.seattleu.edu [206.81.198.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA16226 for ; Fri, 11 Dec 1998 21:21:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hodeleri@seattleu.edu) Received: from seattleu.edu ([172.17.25.95]) by chopin.seattleu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA29322; Fri, 11 Dec 1998 21:21:05 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3671FD03.44B4D0DC@seattleu.edu> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 21:20:03 -0800 From: Eric Hodel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marc Andre Paquin CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fat32 and fat16 References: <3671887E.4683294A@cca.qc.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It is not true that FAT32 and FAT16 cannot coexist. If you have a partition that is less that 512 MB then that partition will not use FAT32, even if you specify large disk support in fdisk.exe. FreeBSD can install from a FAT32 formatted disk. You should probably be getting 2.2.8, but you'll have to check for older versions. Marc Andre Paquin wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a HB with 3 partitions. 2 for win95 in fat32 and the last one is intended for > FreeBSD in a near future. I have been told that it was imposible to have on the same > disk fat32 and fat16 (DOS to install FreeBSD). > > Will i have to reformat (!) and make the 3 partitions in fat16 (on a 11.5GIG HD, > it's a real waste!) > > Thank you! > -- > Marc André Paquin, adjoint au chef T. I. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > \\\\\|///// > ( @ @ ) > ---oOOo-(_)-oOOo--------------------------- > Centre Canadien d'Architecture | C C A > http://cca.qc.ca > -----------Oooo---------------------------- > oooO ( ) > ( ) ) / > \ ( (_/ > \_) > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Eric Hodel hodeleri@seattleu.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message