Re: SUMMARY: FIPS failing with 6.1Gb disk

[Brian <eith cs wisc edu>]

Well if your computer is new and it has a big drive (over 1 gig), chances
are that it has and extended partition with several logical partitions
from the factory. Take a look at through WIN95 and see if there is a
c-drive, d-drive, e-drive et... If so, you may be in business.  What you
have to do is move everything from the logical drives to drive c.  If you
can't squeeze it all on there, you will have to delete some stuff.  Then
once you have all the logical partitions empty, go ahead and run the fdisk
that comes with RH (don't use the DOS version).  Then go ahead and remove
the extended partition (you'll have to remove all the logical partitions
from within the exteneded partition first).  Ok so far.  Now you have some
disk space to play with.  Go ahead and set aside your Linux partitions,
and make an extended DOS partition with what's left (make some logical
partitions within the extended partiton).  You should be set.  NOTE: this
could be highly dangerous so make sure you are very careful and I am not
liable for any damage done to WIN95 in the process (although in most
people's eyes, damaging WIN95 is a good thing...)  

Let me know if this works for you...

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On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, John Deacon wrote:

> 
> 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 ?
>  
> 
> 
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