The Monday 2004-08-30 at 12:03 -0700, John Sowden wrote:
On an 8.2 new install, I set up three partitions for dos, 2 using fat32 and one using fat16. I am unable to get suse to establish a 16 bit fat. Why 16 bit? I found an encryption program that traps calls to the hd and encrypt/decrypts onthe fly, so the partition is always encrypted.
Use msdos instead of vfat in the fstab file, perhaps.
Second problem. I use ms-dos 7.1 (from win98) because it allows me to access my 32 bit fat partitions via dosemu or real mode. Unfortunately when I booted with the win98 emergency boot disk, it trashed the partition table of my suse 8.2 install.
Ough! :-( Try gpart. I don't know if it is on the rescue CD, I think it is - if not, it should, definitely. If not, then you have to move that HD to a computer with Linux already on it, so that you can use gpart. Whatever you do, don't write anything to that partition table or disk till you know what to do. Next time, print your partition table, in paper, seven copies, kept on different safes :-P -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson