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Article #212Re: Partitioning Advice
From: vishwanath parakala
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 00:00
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 00:00
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If u enable large disk support in Windose (ie FAT32), some flavours of LLinux will not be able to access it (even using vfat) .. I had slackware (probably an old version) which could not acess fat32 partitions ... WIth suse there's no problem ... Xylen <mctupper@holly.colostate.edu> wrote: > walter@lamar.colostate.edu wrote: >> >> Xylen <mctupper@holly.colostate.edu> wrote: >> : After you install Windose, Linux is happy to have whatever is left. I am >> : using 2Gb for the Win partition (FAT16), which linux will recognize the >> ^^^^^ >> >> Am I reading this right in that Linux can read FAT16, but not FAT32? > Me bad. That should be FAT32. Personally I don't think windose knows > how to read anything, but at least Linux knows what to do with the FAT32 > partition. >> >> Thanks for the help all. I'll try and give it a go this weekend. >> >> -- >> Brian J Walter | walter@lamar.colostate.edu >> Chem Graduate Student | CSU 31 - Utah 24 >> Colorado State Univ | Dallas Davis is CSU's "Dangerous D" >> Fort Collins, CO | Bring on the Lobos! > -- > BUFFERS=20 FILES=15 2nd down, 4th quarter, 5 yards to go > ======================================================== -- VISHWANATH PARAKALA __________________________________________________________________________ Home Page: http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~vishu finger : vishu@schubert.cs.colostate.edu
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1159f7,d596ffce9ee15296 X-Google-Attributes: gid1159f7,public From: vishwanath parakala <vishu@cs.colostate.edu> Subject: Re: Partitioning Advice Date: 1999/11/29 Message-ID: <81v2vc$2ius@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> X-Deja-AN: 554969374 References: <7vspd0$82h4@lamar.ColoState.EDU> <7vt9s2$1lt4@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> <38224107.F28466CC@holly.colostate.edu> <7vvonf$562c@lamar.ColoState.EDU> <38236F64.D39E2CD9@holly.colostate.edu> Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980226 (UNIX) (SunOS/5.7 (sun4u)) Newsgroups: csu.unix.linux