Re: Debian and SuSE with Win98/FAT32 and NTFS
On Mon, 11 Jan, 1999 à 07:33:21PM +0100, Peter Bartosch wrote:
> Hi!
>
>
> > On Sun, Jan 10, 1999 at 09:16:45PM +0300, Serge Gavrilov wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jan 10, 1999 at 10:09:26AM -0800, Pann McCuaig wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Jan 10, 1999 at 11:00:14AM -0500, Danny R. Gray wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > that FAT32 for Win95B support is in Kernel 2.034, is this true and is it
> >
> > Command (m for help):
> >
> > (If that partition were FAT16 fdisk would know its type.)
>
> no, you can change the partition id (e.g. with fdisk) whithout changing
> anything else -- and the kernel recognises it anyway
>
For the kernel it won't make any difference but M$-DO$ and Win1895 rely on the
correct type to boot. So, it Nintendo can boot from this partition, it's not a
FAT16 one.
> the id is only for users ;-)
>
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