Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 08:09:15 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD's partition layout incompatible with Win98? Message-ID: <19981012080915.A21161@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9810111831470.7123-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>; from Doug White on Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 06:32:28PM -0700 References: <199810100745.JAA15232@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> <Pine.BSF.4.03.9810111831470.7123-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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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. > > Doug White > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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