Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3261 mails)

["Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D." <smolnar@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

First of all, my apologies to the group for posting this problem here, but 
I've had no luck with the local MS Win95 'experts'  Actually, this does 
involve SuSE/Linux because the problem is on one of my dual boot platforms 
and resulted in my having to figure out a work around in order to install 
v7.2, but that's a story for another submission.

The platform had a HD pack up last week and I siezed upon that as an excuse 
to increase my HD space on that platform.  I got a 45GB Maxtor - I've had 
good luck with Maxtor DH's in the past and their software makes 
installation very easy.  I accepted the Maxtor default FAT16 partitioning 
and created 23 2GB partitions with a smaller 24th partition on the 
end.  Subsequent to this step is where I generate the problem for which I'm 
seeking a solution.  Because of the new drive there are more than 26 
partitions on the machine, which exceeds the limit that the Win95 File 
Manager, actually it's power desk - which is based on the Win95.  So the 
Win95 File Manager ran out of assignable drive letters before it assigned a 
letter to the CD drive.  BIOS still finds the CD during boot and Linux 
certainly does but Win95 doesn't.  The file manager sees drives A through 
U, with the exception of B.

One of the 'experts' I consulted said duhhhhhh and the other said that he 
thought that there was a number restriction that MS imposes on Win, but he 
wasn't sure.  I dimly remember something about a lastdrive specification in 
MS OSs, but no  details.

Help will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.