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Article #11290Re: dos 5.0 BIGDOS FAT? (was: reseller protection?)
From: Joe Morris
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1991 20:54
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1991 20:54
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hartnegg@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Klaus Hartnegg) writes: >jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris) writes: >[...] >>the DOS5 installation >>rebuilt the FAT to BIGDOS format, which is unknown to DOS 3.3 and prevents >>it from recognizing the DOS partition. >Will Dos 5 really do this with ALL partitions regardless of wether >there have more than 32 MB or not? No. The case I cited was for a PS/2-70-121 (120 MB fixed disk); I'm typing this on a NEC PowerMate which has two physical fixed disks of 40 MB each. Installing MS-DOS 5 on this unit did *not* reconfigure the FAT. It's still in DOS-16 format. I haven't tried DOS5 on any otherm machine with 120 MB of fixed disk or larger, so I have a sample population of one. BTW: both the PS/2-70 and the NEC were partitioned using the standard FDISK program. I haven't gotten around to calling uSoft to see just why this happened. Joe Morris
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!linus!linus!mwunix.mitre.org!jcmorris From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: dos 5.0 BIGDOS FAT? (was: reseller protection?) Message-ID: <jcmorris.677451273@mwunix.mitre.org> Date: 20 Jun 91 20:54:33 GMT References: <jcmorris.677278372@mwunix.mitre.org> <1991Jun20.115732.656@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de> Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service) Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford MA Lines: 23 Nntp-Posting-Host: mwunix.mitre.org