RE: Newbie questions, Partisioning
There is no prob with having fat16 after fat32 partitions but using fdisk
(windows-dos version) you can only have 2 partitions - logical drives aren't
included - i.e. 2 primary or 1 primary and one extended, Linux fdisk I think
can have up to 4 primary partitions, you prob could be related to the bios.
one thing I have noticed is Linux has problems with partitions after a
certain block, not sure which, perhaps someone could enlighten us?
also had a diff prob of disk druid - red hat - completely deleting the
extended partition upon reboot, including partition I had just installed
Linux on, screamed a bit when i realised that!!!
-----Original Message-----
From: Brad [mailto:lists@anomie.ods.org]
Sent: 25 April 2000 19:46
To: Lowell Voelker
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Newbie questions, Partisioning
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 04:21:05AM +0100, Lowell Voelker wrote:
>
> There is a rumor around that any Primary Partision after a Fat32 can not
be
> Fat16. Is this true?
Not sure about that, but i've seen WinDOS 98 have troubles with two
FAT32 primary partitions -- it read C: (hdb1) ok, but D: was a 0 byte
drive and E: was hdb2. Changing that second primary to a logical
partition (hdb5) gave C:=hdb1 and D:=hdb5 as expected.
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