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From: Systems Administrator
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 00:00

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Michael Strates <mstrates@minkirri.apana.org.au> wrote in article
<Pine.LNX.3.96.971221084436.6636A-100000@minkirri.apana.org.au>...
> FIPS won't work on partitions formatted in FAT32, the format the later
> revisions of Windows 95 are set to format by default. This is due to, I
> beleive the specifications for FAT32 being with-held by Microsoft
> Corporation, and hence is probably targetted at the Linux community,
> because FIPS won't work on them.

Or that FIPS is not brand new.  What version of it are we talking about?

> Sorry about this. You can backup and delete, and make two new partitions.
> Let me repeat this, never format a Windows 95 partition in FAT32 unless
> you enjoy causing trouble.

And want your old disk utils to fail, and want a 10% performance hit, and
..

Ed

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From: "Systems Administrator" <veggie.admin@paginc.com>
Subject: Re: Fips problems
Date: 1997/12/22
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