From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 19 12:44:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA13712 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 12:44:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wacky.total.net (wacky.total.net [205.236.175.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA13655 for ; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 12:44:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from datadave@total.net) Received: from total.net (ppp-5200-0142.mtl.total.net [207.139.112.56]) by wacky.total.net (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA02260; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 15:43:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <35B24C6E.746AA387@total.net> Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 15:43:45 -0400 From: Dave Hoppe X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FAT32 ?? Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------65161314D5C3B331BC27CAC2" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------65161314D5C3B331BC27CAC2 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------E4A3404B9A7CA5C2604FF97D" --------------E4A3404B9A7CA5C2604FF97D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To whom exactly it may concern ? :> It is with great appreciation & 'thankfulness, that I address this -question- to you, with hopes, that you may 'enlighten me, with a couple of rather simple answers to a couple of rather ' simple ' questions !?.....although as it may be, perhaps I have underestimated, the actual Complex varibles, which regards to the fact, that it isn't a very simple process if at all even possible . I am a complete ' Clutz ' when it comes to these sorts of situations & would rather ' ask for assitance ' from the -experts like yourself ?! I have a diskette with FAT32 on it ,ready to install. This being my first problem. I have a Pentium 133 16EDO RAM, utilizing FAT 16??, not FAT32. I WANT to install FAT32, but ofcourse I do not have any knowledge on wether or not ,one can just go into DOS & install from there or wehter it is even a safe situation to bother installing FAT32 ? I gather, that I could recover more actual fdisk space ,badly needed. I only have a 1.2 GiG sized Hard-Drive . I also understand that it is simply better on one's system to operate utilizing FAT32 ?? There appears to be alot of space -wastage- using my present FAT16. If it is not too much trouble for you to give me some sort of direction on this, I'd really appreciate it, because there seems to be alot of different ' schools of thought on this FAT32 situation, & I do not understand why it is such a big deal ? I only see installing FAT32 as a definate +plus ?!...but what if any -risks are involved here. Is it neccessary (hopefully not ) to install FAT32 on a newly -formatted Hard-Drive ?? Why could'nt I just go into DOS & install the FAT32 from there ? I am rather confused about it . My gain as I see it, is the recovery of additional -space -on my small Hard-Drive . I also understand that it is -apparently better on ones system because the FAT32 reduces the actual -size- of the clusters ?? and oh yes, I recently installed the W95OSR2 platform, but as I say, I still only have the 16(fat?) configuration . So is your -oppinion, that I would benefit from increasing my existing system to accomodate a FAT32 setup ? Thanx very much for any amount of time which U may invest with regards to my questions here ! Anything I can do inorder to recipricate your kind endeavours would be much appreciated by me . Please let me know if I can therefore do something in exchange for your services in the form of advice here ?! Sincerely yours , Dave Hoppe (datadave@total.net) Montreal, Canada ------------------------------------------------------------------------ . --------------E4A3404B9A7CA5C2604FF97D Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To whom exactly it may concern ? :>
                                         It is with great appreciation & 'thankfulness, that I address this -question- to you, with hopes, that you may 'enlighten me, with a couple of rather simple answers to a couple of rather ' simple ' questions !?.....although as it may be, perhaps I have underestimated, the actual Complex varibles, which regards to the fact, that it isn't a very simple process if at all even possible . I am a complete ' Clutz ' when it comes to these sorts of situations & would rather ' ask for assitance ' from the -experts like yourself ?!
            I have a diskette with FAT32 on it ,ready to install. This being my first problem. I have a Pentium 133 16EDO RAM, utilizing FAT 16??, not FAT32. I WANT to install FAT32, but ofcourse I do not have any knowledge on wether or not ,one can just go into DOS & install from there or wehter it is even a safe situation to bother installing FAT32 ?
I gather, that I could recover more actual fdisk space ,badly needed. I only have a 1.2 GiG
sized Hard-Drive . I also understand that it is simply better on one's system to operate utilizing FAT32 ??  There appears to be alot of space -wastage- using my present FAT16.
        If it is not too much trouble for you to give me some sort of direction on this, I'd really appreciate it, because there seems to be alot of different ' schools of thought on this FAT32 situation, & I do not understand why it is such a big deal ?  I only see installing FAT32 as a definate +plus ?!...but what if any -risks are involved here. Is it neccessary (hopefully not ) to install FAT32 on a newly -formatted Hard-Drive ??  Why could'nt I just go into DOS & install the FAT32 from there ?   I am rather confused about it . My gain as I see it, is the recovery of additional -space -on my small Hard-Drive .  I also understand that it is -apparently better on ones system because the FAT32 reduces the actual -size- of the clusters ??   and oh yes, I recently installed the W95OSR2 platform, but as I say, I still only have the 16(fat?) configuration .  So is your -oppinion, that I would benefit from increasing my existing system to accomodate a FAT32 setup ?
            Thanx very much for any amount of time which U may invest with regards to my questions here ! Anything I can do inorder to recipricate your kind endeavours would be much appreciated by me . Please let me know if I can therefore do something in exchange for your services in the form of advice here ?!
                   Sincerely yours ,
                                            Dave Hoppe (datadave@total.net)  Montreal, Canada
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