RE: Newbie questions, Partisioning

2000-04-25 Thread Steven Satelle
ux 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: >

Re: Newbie questions, Partisioning

2000-04-25 Thread Brad
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

Re: Newbie questions, Partisioning

2000-04-25 Thread David Wright
Quoting Lowell Voelker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I was just given a new PC with 40GB hard drive and Win98 preloaded Fat32 > from what fdisk is telling me. Will it be posible to leave the first > 20-30GB as Fat32 and from 30-40Gb for Debian? Yes, just so long as you can boot the kernel from somewhere