Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 13:48:15 +0200 From: Yuri van Overmeeren <Yuri.vanOvermeeren@reston.demon.nl> To: dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what was it ? Message-ID: <432D53FF.8050906@reston.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050918133429.35e96a73.dick@nagual.st> References: <20050918133429.35e96a73.dick@nagual.st>
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dick hoogendijk wrote: >I know it is off topic, but I trust you guys in this group to just >remember it. > >I'm building an old msdos machine for a little kid (very nostalgic). >But I seem to rememeber that there was an issue about the space of the >harddrive. Some kind of limit I don't remember. How large can a ms-dos >partition be? > > > Depends on the filesystem you use, FAT16 has a 2GB limit, FAT32 (in theory) supports very large partitions but I think you could get in trouble at 127GB or 137GB with MS-Dos. Newer MS-Dos (or other doses) support FAT32. "Old MS-Dos" machines used FAT16, if the hardware is from that time period you also might run into the hardware limitation that BIOS can not adress more then a 32GB harddisk, most drives however have a capactiy limit jumper setting for this reason. (limits drive at 32GB). have fun :) - yuri -
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