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Re: Debian and SuSE with Win98/FAT32 and NTFS



Hi!


> 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.

yes you're right, in such cases win95 asks to format the
"unknown-type"-disks - and not only once *g*



until next mail ;)

Peter
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