by Darren Westlak » Sun, 10 Jan 1999 04:00:00
I have Win98 with 2 FAT32 partitions. I want to create a new partition to
install Linux on.
I have fips and Partition Magic v2 (which apparently doesn't support FAT32).
Is there any way of creating the partition without having to buy the latest
version of Partition Magic (which I assume does support FAT32)?
Cheers,
Daz
by ian » Sun, 10 Jan 1999 04:00:00
> Hi,
> I have Win98 with 2 FAT32 partitions. I want to create a new partition to
> install Linux on.
> I have fips and Partition Magic v2 (which apparently doesn't support FAT32).
> Is there any way of creating the partition without having to buy the latest
> version of Partition Magic (which I assume does support FAT32)?
> Cheers,
> Daz
by Jeff Ka » Mon, 11 Jan 1999 04:00:00
Fips 2.0 does support Fat32 .... just remember to defrag first
Actually you may have a problem cause well windows 98 sometimes leaves a code
block at the end of the disk and thus fips wont work since there is not space
at the end....
If this is the case....you got 2 solutions.....buy partition magic v? or delete
one of the Fat32 partitions and install linux there..... ( also check out the
fips page they mention a couple possible files which if they are the files at
the end can be deleted safely....check there if not sorry)..
I had this occur and since I had just recently bought the system I planned to
install linux on I just deleted eveything and reinstalled it all.... Not the
best solution but if you dont have anything to important and dont mind the
effort..... windows can always use a fresh install.....
cheers
jeff
Quote:> Hi,
> I have Win98 with 2 FAT32 partitions. I want to create a new partition to
> install Linux on.
> I have fips and Partition Magic v2 (which apparently doesn't support FAT32).
> Is there any way of creating the partition without having to buy the latest
> version of Partition Magic (which I assume does support FAT32)?
> Cheers,
> Daz
by Darren Westlak » Mon, 11 Jan 1999 04:00:00
FIPS didn't seem to recognise the partition so I ended up deleteing one of
my little used partitions and reallocated part of the space to linux.
Daz
>I have Win98 with 2 FAT32 partitions. I want to create a new partition to
>install Linux on.
>I have fips and Partition Magic v2 (which apparently doesn't support
FAT32).
>Is there any way of creating the partition without having to buy the latest
>version of Partition Magic (which I assume does support FAT32)?
>Cheers,
>Daz
by John Thomps » Mon, 11 Jan 1999 04:00:00
How is presizer with non-FAT filesystems these days? I used an
early version of presizer many years ago when I installed OS/2.
It shrank my FAT16 partition just fine, and I was able to create
and install OS/2 to HPFS in the free space presizer made. But
once HPFS was on the drive, presizer refused to work any more,
and I went to Partition Magic instead. Does the latest version
of presizer support ext2 or HPFS (or even NTFS or FAT32, god
forbid)?
>> Hi,
>> I have Win98 with 2 FAT32 partitions. I want to create a new partition to
>> install Linux on.
>> I have fips and Partition Magic v2 (which apparently doesn't support FAT32).
>> Is there any way of creating the partition without having to buy the latest
>> version of Partition Magic (which I assume does support FAT32)?
by Mark » Mon, 11 Jan 1999 04:00:00
I bought partion magic v3 and I think I waisted 60 bucks.
I recomend ranish's Partion Manager. Download it free from:
http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/
Then read all of the docs accompanied with it and whatever
is on the web site. That should help. I shrank my partition
succesfuly with it and it was easy. Just remeber to defrag 1st.
Mark
> Hi,
> I have Win98 with 2 FAT32 partitions. I want to create a new partition to
> install Linux on.
> I have fips and Partition Magic v2 (which apparently doesn't support FAT32).
> Is there any way of creating the partition without having to buy the latest
> version of Partition Magic (which I assume does support FAT32)?
> Cheers,
> Daz
by Valentin » Sat, 16 Jan 1999 04:00:00
1. FAT32 and Linux 2.0.35: mounting the FAT32 partition
Hello,
I have just reinstalled win95 on a FAT32 partition and
upgraded my kernel to 2.0.35 so that (hopefully) I will
be able to see my dos partiton even though it uses FAT32
(aka "enable lrge disk support").
I have the following /etc/fstab file:
/dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda8 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda6 /usr/local ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
... and my dos partiton is on /dev/hda1 and is supposed to be mounted under the /msdos directory
which is already there (I created it through RedHat's Disk Druid (aka "fdisk with GUI") when I was
installing up Linux).
Here's the output of df:
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hda5 599043 524089 44010 92% /
/dev/hda8 50717 8856 39242 18% /home
/dev/hda6 247871 35465 199606 15% /usr/local
The fat32 filesystem does not show (the /msdos directory doesin't either).
/msdos should be mounted on (? /dev/hda9) and should get mounted at boot time?
Any suggestions?
TIA,
Neil Zanella
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