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Re: adding win 95 partition



James Ruby wrote:

> I'm wondering if this can be donw with out re-installing debian?
>
> I have a 20 gb drive with 5 gb for root and 5 gb for user and 128 mb swap
> they are all primary partitions.
>
> Now I have a little over 9 gb left, I would like to devide this in half and
> make partitions that windows 95 can see and use, can I do this with out
> trashing the drive and starting over?
>
> So far the things I've tried with cfdisk did not work, there are about four
> different win 95 fat 32 options.
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Assuming you have an IDE drive, you're limited to a max of 4 partitions I believe,
which may be causing your problem. If it's a SCSI drive, I think you can have 32
partitions so that's not an issue.




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