Re: FDISK

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From: Harry Broomhall
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 00:00

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On Fri, 9 Apr 1999 14:14:49 +0100, Oz <Oz@upthorpe.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>In article <370e5bb9.13913772@news.demon.co.uk>, Harry Broomhall
><haeb@pc60.demon.co.uk> writes
>>
>>  IMHO *don't* use DOS6.2 on such a large drive.  It doesn'r support
>>drives over 8Gb correctly.  On drives under this limit the largest
>>partition you can create is 2Gb.
>
>A small side question. Presumably it would be OK if on an 18GB drive
>only the first 8GB (in 4 chunks) was dos62 and the rest 'another' OS?

  If you are *fully* aware of what you are doing, and the 'another OS'
is not Windows based then yes - this will probably be OK.

   I say 'probably' because I have come across motherboards with
BIOSes that get confused in such circumstances.

   Regards,
          Harry.

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