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From: phil@diablo.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
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Subject: Re: DOS 4.01: need partition s'ware?
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Date: 14 Dec 89 23:22:46 GMT
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In article <111700182@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> lmhg0369@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
|I just wonder
|how the DOS is going to get the word on how large the disk is, THAT'S
|the big question now that somebody has assured me that it is possible.

That's no problem. What you do is LLF, fdisk, and then DOS format.
FDISK knows how big the physical disk is, presumably because it knows
the geometry. FDISK does allow you to define several partitions, each
smaller than the physical disk but I'm not sure why you'd do that.
You can define the partition size in terms of megabytes or % of the
physical disk. 

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