Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 08:23:26 PST From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com> To: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: win95 Message-ID: <9612031623.AA19655@gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 Nov 1996 14:06:17 PST." <Pine.BSF.3.91.961129140600.2743A-100000@narcissus.ml.org>
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> 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
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