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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. -- finger for GPG public key.
