From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 11 23:12:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA27007 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 11 Dec 1998 23:12:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from iway1.iw.net (iway1.iw.net [204.157.148.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA27001 for ; Fri, 11 Dec 1998 23:12:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dragonknight@dtgnet.com) Received: from death (rap-dialup-34.dtgnet.com [216.16.6.34] (may be forged)) by iway1.iw.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA00082; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 01:11:54 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <003f01be259e$5e2e36a0$81e9fea9@death> From: "Dragon Knight" To: "Eric Hodel" , "Marc Andre Paquin" Cc: Subject: Re: fat32 and fat16 Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 00:08:52 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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