SUMMARY: FIPS failing with 6.1Gb disk

[John Deacon <jrd star ucl ac uk>]

Thanks to 

Tethys <tethys ml com>
Roger Yee <yee 5 pop service ohio-state edu>
Stephen Smoogen <smooge redhat com> 

for the solution to my question (original message appended below).

Our new PC came with the OS2 release of Windows 95 which has a FAT32
filesystem which FIPS doesn't currently support. My excuse is that I'm
from a UNIX (and VMS long ago) site and Windows 95 is Windows 95 is
Windows 95 as far as I knew.

The solution is to either install an old version of Windows 95 or use
something like Partition Magic to repartion the disk.

cheers,

 john.


>    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 ?