OPENSTEP and DOS/Windows98/FAT32 partitions
Charles Pierce
Hello All,
I have OPENSTEP 4.2 and Windows98 running on a
multi-partition hard disk and am trying to get OPENSTEP
to recognize the DOS partition. The hard disk is 6GB,
so I would prefer to use FAT32 for more efficient use
of the disk space.
Does anyone know whether it is possible to get OPENSTEP to recognize
a FAT32 formatted DOS partition? Perhaps if I setup an entry in
/etc/disktab?
If I reformat the DOS partition as FAT16, will everything work then?
Suppose I have multiple DOS partitions. Is there any way to tell
OPENSTEP
which partition to mount, or can it only mount the C: drive?
How do I create multiple OPENSTEP partitions? fdisk seems to
only allow one OPENSTEP partition.
Any advice on these matters would be appreciated.
Charles
David Evans
Charles Pierce <cpi...@ctr.stanford.edu> wrote:
>
>Does anyone know whether it is possible to get OPENSTEP to recognize
>a FAT32 formatted DOS partition? Perhaps if I setup an entry in
>/etc/disktab?
>
As far as I know 4.2 doesn't have any FAT32 support. There's vmount (that
I believe is on peak and peanuts) that can handle FAT32 but it's a little
kludgy. I don't know whether sufficient documentation is available to write
filesystems that live in /usr/filesystems.
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Charles Pierce
> I have OPENSTEP 4.2 and Windows98 running on a
> multi-partition hard disk and am trying to get OPENSTEP
> to recognize the DOS partition. The hard disk is 6GB,
> so I would prefer to use FAT32 for more efficient use
> of the disk space.
>
> Does anyone know whether it is possible to get OPENSTEP to recognize
> a FAT32 formatted DOS partition? Perhaps if I setup an entry in
> /etc/disktab?
>
> If I reformat the DOS partition as FAT16, will everything work then?
>
> Suppose I have multiple DOS partitions. Is there any way to tell
> OPENSTEP
> which partition to mount, or can it only mount the C: drive?
>
> How do I create multiple OPENSTEP partitions? fdisk seems to
> only allow one OPENSTEP partition.
After further study and experimentation, I think I can now answer these
questions.
1. I have given up on trying to access FAT32 from OPENSTEP.
2. It seems all of my problems and misunderstandings were stemming from
the fact that FAT16 DOS partitions are limited to only 2GB. Not knowing
this, I had created 2063MB DOS partitions, which are too big for FAT16.
Suprisingly, DOS's fdisk and format programs allowed me to do this, and
I could in fact access these partitions in DOS. However, both
OPENSTEP's boot0 and DOS probing programs failed to recognize them
properly. Once I went back to fdisk and shrank the FAT16 partitions to
<2000MB, everything worked as expected.
3. I'm still wondering how to handle multiple OPENSTEP partitions on a
large IDE disk.
-Charles
Charles W. Swiger
> Charles Pierce wrote:
> 3. I'm still wondering how to handle multiple OPENSTEP partitions on a
> large IDE disk.
You make a single large FDISK partition containing multiple (ie, up to 7)
"slices" or "BSD partitions", ala /dev/sd0a through /dev/sd0h.
-Chuck
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Rex Dieter
"Charles Pierce" <cpi...@ctr.stanford.edu> wrote in message
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> Charles Pierce wrote:
> 3. I'm still wondering how to handle multiple OPENSTEP partitions on a
> large IDE disk.
Can't be done. OPENSTEP limits you to one UFS partition. What you CAN do,
however, is to define a single, large partition > 4GB, and when using 'disk'
to partition/format it, it'll chop it into "slices" that are each <2GB.
That way you end up with 2 or more virtual partitions (again, called
"slices") for your use.
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Rex Dieter
Computer System Administrator
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Nebraska Lincoln
Ken Turner
Ken Turner
Rex Dieter
"Ken Turner" <k...@cs.stir.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> AFAIK, vmount (as available on the archives) handles only FAT16 (and 12
and 8).
Really? I'm almost certain that vmount claims some sort of FAT32
capability. I was never able to confirm it myself, since vmount seems to
have the same-old OpenStep partition size limit of 4GB (the FAT32 partition
I tried with vmount was ~8GB).
--
Rex Dieter
Computer System Administrator
David Evans
Rex Dieter <rdi...@math.unl.edu> wrote:
>
>Really? I'm almost certain that vmount claims some sort of FAT32
>capability.
I've done vmount on my 2GB FAT32 partition. It worked fine as I recall.