On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 21:23:47 +1200 cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought DOS could only handle partitions of up to ~500MB (512? > 528?). I must be wrong, it happily formatted 600MB, at least for > partition 3.
DOS (that is, FAT16) can handle partitions up to two gigabytes in size. And you can have four of them, so eight gigs can be used. But as I understand it, when you get to that size a lot of space gets wasted (very inefficient block size, or something like that). > But anyway, this is the revised scheme: > 1 Pri DOS 500MB Bootable DOS6.22 > 2 Pri DOS 600MB W95 > 3 Pri DOS 600MB W98 > 4 Extended 5 DOS 500MB > 6 DOS 800MB FWIW, under Linux you'll have to live with the same fudge - three primary partitions maximum, and one extended partitions with numberous (I think 64 is the max) logical partitions. This is a limitation of the Intel architecture. > > > Or, could I just use Linux fdisk? You'll probably find cfdisk to be much easier to use. > Well, I've found that GRUB is extremely benign (once sorted). It > took me a Take a look at this excellent article if you want to install Grub: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue85/4622.html regards, Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
