At 07:13 PM 98-05-28 +0200, Jürgen wrote:
Hello,
a few friends want to install Linux. They use '95 with the new 32 bit FAT.
first:Is there a chance to repartitionate these FATs? And how? (fips or something similar. I've got no experience with that)
second: can I use LILO in the boot record? is there a difference with booting linux and the according lilo.conf entrys? Yes, you can install LILO on the MBR of the disk but remember to include a
I have successfully used a product called Partition Magic to reduce FAT32 partition size to make room for Linux. It works with most file systems on the x86 platform besides fat/fat32. For safe measure, also run scandisk and defrag on the Fat32 partition after reducing it's size (boot in DOS prompt mode for scandisk). I have experienced some strange behavior in Win95 environment that went away after scandisk/defrag on the FAT partitions. section for the DOS (Win95) partition in your /etc/lilo.conf. It does not matter whether the DOS partition is FAT or FAT32. HTH Good luck. Arun Khan -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e