Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!mintaka!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!bruce!sol1!cechew From: cechew@sol1.cs.monash.edu.au (Earl Chew) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: mkfs glitch in 1.5.10 Message-ID: Date: 26 Feb 91 21:31:13 GMT References: <45603@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <1991Feb26.015027.18712@amd.com> Sender: news@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU Lines: 22 ching@brahms.amd.com (Mike Ching) writes: >In article cechew@sol1.cs.monash.edu.au (Earl Chew) writes: [.. some partial rubbish ..] >If you haven't used fdisk to make the partition type MINIX, then that is >what you should do to make the partition invisible to DOS. Fdisk under >DOS can't do this so you can change it under MINIX or compile the MINIX fdisk >under DOS. This now has been pointed out by several people. Strictly speaking, my original reply was wrong :-( If, however, you don't want to use a partition table at all, and want to use the *ENTIRE* disk for a Minix file system, then my reply may be true. Earl -- Earl Chew, Dept of Computer Science, Monash University, Australia 3168 EMAIL: cechew@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au PHONE: 03 5655778 FAX: 03 5655146 ----------------------------------------------------------------------