From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 3 08:36:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA27145 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 08:36:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA27138 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 08:36:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.sdsp.mc.xerox.com ([13.231.132.18]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <18173(1)>; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 08:35:58 PST Received: from gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com [13.231.133.90]) by www.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (8.8.3/8.7.5) with SMTP id LAA18217; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 11:23:32 -0500 (EST) Received: by gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (4.1/client-1.3) id AA19655; Tue, 3 Dec 96 11:23:29 EST Message-Id: <9612031623.AA19655@gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: Snob Art Genre Cc: Greg Lehey , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: win95 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 Nov 1996 14:06:17 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 08:23:26 PST From: "Marty Leisner" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Fri, 29 Nov 1996, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > Snob Art Genre writes: > > > On Thu, 28 Nov 1996, peter grillone wrote: > > > > > >> I would like to be able to floppy boot, whenever I wanted to to use Unix. > > >> is this possible? or am I spitting in the wind? > > > > > > It's even better than that. FreeBSD comes with a utility that > > > repartitions your hard drive without loss of data. > > > > This utility will only resize DOS file systems, not Windows 95 file > > Sorry, my mistake. I did not know that. > > > systems. In addition, there are reports of bugs. If you need to make > > space on the disk, you'll be *far* better off recreating your Windows > > 95 partitions from scratch. > > > I'm somewhat confused....are we talking about fips? I just bought a toshiba laptop...fips couldn't run on a type E filesystem (which it was). I changed it to type 6 (normal dos) and everything is running fine. >From Ralf Brown's interrupt list: 0Bh Windows 95 with 32-bit FAT 0Ch Windows 95 with 32-bit FAT (LBA mode) 0Eh reserved by Microsoft for logical-block-addressable VFAT 0Fh reserved by Microsoft for logical-block-addressable VFAT can anyone elaborate on this? -- marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom