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From: cs304pal@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Lloyd Parkes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Using fdisks (was: Re: Compiling problems, won't link)
Message-ID: <1989Oct9.193740.1616@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
Date: 9 Oct 89 19:37:40 GMT
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In article <2246@ditsyda.oz> evans@ditsyda.oz (Bruce Evans) writes:
>>I had *lots* of trouble when I was using the fdisk from DOS 3.30.

>Minix, while DOS 3.2 did the opposite. DOS 3.3 fdisk always gave me trouble

MSDOS's fdisk is an abomination, it insists on deleting any partitions with
a system id of zero. I can't find any reference that actually says zero
signifies a null partition. If I must use DOS's fdisk, I use Norton's
Utilities (probably tm, reg, pat pen etc) to change the system id to Xenix
:-). It's typical of DOS, I have to lie to it, to get it to do anything
useful. 
					Lloyd

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