Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 00:08:52 -0700 From: "Dragon Knight" <dragonknight@dtgnet.com> To: "Eric Hodel" <hodeleri@seattleu.edu>, "Marc Andre Paquin" <mapaquin@cca.qc.ca> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: fat32 and fat16 Message-ID: <003f01be259e$5e2e36a0$81e9fea9@death>
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Perhaps I'm just numb of the mind.. well, ok, I am numb of the mind but anyway, I have a 6.4 Gig. IDE drive in this box, currently it has a 2.1 Gig. FAT16 partition with Win98 and a ~4.1 Gig. chunk split off for FreeBSD. I did have a 2.1 Gig. FAT16 partition, and a ~2.5 Gig. FAT32 Partition but found that FreeBSD (2.2.6) refused to install in the remaining space on the disk. Thus I was forced to remove the FAT32 partition before continuing. I'm thinking this is because all partitions after the first MS-DOS (C:) which is the Primary DOS partition are created in the Extended DOS partition. These additions partitions (the ones in the Extended DOS partition) are so-called Logical DOS drives. So, to have more than 1 DOS drive FAT32 or FAT16 you must be sure to have the last (X) part of the drive untouched. Meaning, don't have DOS's fdisk use 100% of the space while making the DOS extended partition. If you haven't done a lot of partitioning in your life, which I haven't, you may think that they cannot at first glance but a FAT32 and a FAT16, or 2x FAT32's, whatever, should be able to run alongside a FreeBSD partition without any problems. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. Samuel Greear >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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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