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From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: The 33 MByte limit (was: Trouble installing DOS 4.01)
Message-ID: <1991May17.003718.12681@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
Date: 17 May 91 00:37:18 GMT
References: <1991May4.181411.13212@novell.com> <1.9grbj@rpi.edu>
Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon.
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Pick up a copy of Compaq MS-DOS 3.31 (or any other 3.31). It supports large
partitions. And Utilities support it. If it doesn't do it the same as
4.x it is apparently at least compatible.

In any case, I'm running a 40 meg drive with one partition at home (the
boot drive is a 40 meg with two partitions, but only because most XT 
controllers can't boot from a BIGDOS partition).

At work, we set have numerous machines with 40, 80, even 120 meg partitions.
And we haven't had any trouble with software not liking them. Not even
things like Norton uitlities, various disk optimizers, etc.

So we have 3.3x *and* we have large partitions.
-- 
Leonard Erickson			leonard@qiclab.uucp
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