Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 19:00:40 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>, freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: FreeBSD disk usage (was: FreeBSD's partition layout incompatible with Win98?) Message-ID: <19981010190040.Z3369@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199810100745.JAA15232@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>; from Christoph Kukulies on Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 09:45:17AM %2B0200 References: <199810100745.JAA15232@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
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On Saturday, 10 October 1998 at 9:45:17 +0200, 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. Right, but one day we'll be able to get rid of Microsoft :-) > Now I wanted to upgrade WIn95 to Win98 and the Win98 installation > failed right at the beginning when the setup examined the computer. Sounds like Microsoft. > 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? There shouldn't be any FAT partition that small. FreeBSD doesn't create FAT partitions unless you ask it to. What's the output of FreeBSD fdisk? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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