From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 12 01:27:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA25004 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 01:27:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA24999 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 01:27:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sue2@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (suebla.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.44.81]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA29511 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 01:27:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from sue2@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.0) id SAA01710; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 18:26:49 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19981012182643.29874@welearn.com.au> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 18:26:44 +1000 From: Sue Blake To: Christoph Kukulies Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD's partition layout incompatible with Win98? References: <199810100745.JAA15232@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> <19981012080915.A21161@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <19981012080915.A21161@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>; from Christoph Kukulies on Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 08:09:15AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 08:09:15AM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 06:32:28PM -0700, Doug White wrote: > > 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. > > This may be the case. The disk does in fact have no free partition. > But so what, when I want to install Win98 over Win95 there is > no new partition creation involved. Win98 just says it finds > a 64K FAT partition and that's too small to cope with and aborts > the setup. > > I think it's FreeBSD part now to get things straight. Couldn't it > mark that 64K partition non-FAT, i.e. 165? I believe then Win98 would > leave it's fingers off that partition. Maybe, maybe not. I've seen strange things like this become possible if you know how, and microsoft isn't telling (recall the popular but undocumented fdisk /mbr). Maybe there's some switch or something that will let you point the upgrader to the partition you want to use. Someone on a windoze newsgroup or similar might have already purchased the simple answer to your problem. Worth a try. -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message