On Sunday 14 September 2003 23:40, Robert Storey wrote: > 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.
Yes, I realise that, having set up quite a number of 'em. But Linux doesn't seem to mind the odd DOS partition here and there, whereas DOS throws a wobbly (in the above example) when formatting Partition 2, if Partition 6 is non-DOS. Very weird, but it did it for me, it did it for Pigeon. > > > > Or, could I just use Linux fdisk? > > You'll probably find cfdisk to be much easier to use. Yes, I agree, but all the rescue disks I've tried (tomsrtbt, RIP and Leka) have fdisk on 'em. > > > 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 Thanks! In fact, I'm now running GRUB on my main Linux drive, /hda, and I'm intending to modify it to boot the DOS/Win drive which I'll put into the system as /hdc. It should just need an addition to its kernel list (or so I hope). But anyway I've saved the article. Actually, I just took a look, and what was the first thing I saw but a mention of FDISK /MBR to uninstall Grub - just what I was wanting to do on this drive. How opportune! :) cr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
