Re: FIPS failing with 6.1Gb disk

[Stephen Smoogen <smooge redhat com>]

Your disk dirve is in FAT32 mode. Fips and Linux do not know how to deal
with these yet. You will need to use Partition Magic or a similar program
currently.

On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, John Deacon wrote:

> 
>    Hi -
> 
>    I'm trying to install Red Hat Linux v4 from CDROM on a Pentium II
>    266MHz PC with 6.1Gb hard disk drive.
> 
>    Windows 95 is currently installed. When I try to run FIPS at the DOS
>    prompt it fails almost immediately with the error:
> 
>       Error: Unknown Filesystem: 0Bh
> 
>       Only DOS partitions can be split (System Indicator Byte must be 4 or 6)
> 
>    and then drops back to the DOS prompt.
> 
>    Is this a known problem and/or is there a fix to FIPS to get around it ?
> 
>    Thanks,
> 
>    john deacon.
> 
> 
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