On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 12:58:35PM -0500, James Ruby wrote:
> I'm wondering if this can be donw with out re-installing debian?
>
> I have a 20 gb drive with 5 gb for root and 5 gb for user and 128 mb swap
> they are all primary partitions.
>
> Now I have a little over 9 gb left, I would like to devide this in half and
> make partitions that windows 95 can see and use, can I do this with out
> trashing the drive and starting over?
>
> So far the things I've tried with cfdisk did not work, there are about four
> different win 95 fat 32 options.
Hi James,
I actually have (quite) the same setup on a HD:
*warning* I'm using w98$ (/dev/hda1) and it doesn't like to see that
/dev/hdc has more than 1 primary partition! Even if they were all
from Linux type :((( (With one of my friend, we have a strong doubt
about a possible M$ trick to bother Linux users...).
With 4 primaries partitions, w98$ takes 12 minutes to boot!!!
(zapping like a crazy HD without swap...)
So now, I've only one primary (Linux) partition on /dev/hdc
In order for win$ to recognize its children, you need to setup
the extended partition in win95 type (which is "f"), and the
w95$ partition type to "b".
here is my setup:
/dev/hda1 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 f Win95 Extended (LBA)
/dev/hda5 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda6 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda7 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda8 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hdc1 83 Linux native
/dev/hdc2 f Win95 Extended (LBA)
/dev/hdc5 83 Linux native
/dev/hdc6 83 Linux native
/dev/hdc7 83 Linux native
/dev/hdc8 83 Linux native
/dev/hdc9 83 Linux native
/dev/hdc10 83 Linux native
/dev/hdc11 b Win95 FAT32
Another advantage to put W$ partitions ALWAYS in logical drives
on another HD is to avoid W$ drives' shifting :)
Et voilà!
JY
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