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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!uknet!vision!ukpoit!kruger!alan From: alan@ssd.ukpoit.co.uk (Alan Barclay) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: how to shutdown -todos? Keywords: shutdown, booting Message-ID: <1992Aug25.111057.24858@ssd.ukpoit.co.uk> Date: 25 Aug 92 11:10:57 GMT References: <aeYd02P=1eZk01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> <22231@venera.isi.edu> <22250@venera.isi.edu> Organization: iT - The Information Technology Business Of The Post Office Lines: 19 In article <22250@venera.isi.edu> allard@isi.edu (Dennis Allard) writes: > > The second is that it gives the message "can not make DOS partition > bootable". This will not work if your partition is larger than about > 30K (the point at which DOS will use a 16 bit FAT). Apparently, it > will only work with 8 bit FATs, so if it is possible, use a smaller > DOS partition, or several smaller partitions instea of one large one. > 30Kb isn't very big, IE about 2% - 10% of the size of a floppy, perhaps that should read 30Mb, and I don't think that DOS uses an 8 bit fat, starting at 12 bits. However the advice is correct, and it should prevent the problem. -- Alan Barclay, iT, Barker Lane, CHESTERFIELD, S40 1DY, Derbys, England alan@ukpoit.uucp, ..!uknet!ukpoit!alan, FAX:+44 246214353, VOICE:+44 246214261 iT - The Information Technology Business | explist now set to 3 days. Of The Post Office : In Tune With Technology | Anyone got a 1.2 Gig disk?