Hi, I have recently got a new hard disk 40GB, in which I decided to install both Windows98 and Debian, FreeBSD. (I never wanted to install this Win98 stuff on my machine but job matters force...)
I repartitioned the hard disk using slink Debian's cfdisk into a first FAT32 partition of 12GB and 3 more partitions (second is 12GB BSD, and the other two, 10 and 5GB Linux). For the cfdisk to work properly with my large disk, I had to specify the disk geometry that FreeBSD's fdisk returned to me. Following that I installed Windows98 on the first partition of 12GB. I checked with the Windows98 fdisk program, and indeed it finds the 4 partitions mentioning that the 3 last ones are non-DOS. The problem is that when I use the Windows explorer to see what is the available space for my C drive (FAT32 partition), I get that available for C are 39GB, i.e. the whole of my hard disk and not just the FAT32 partition. Despite that, it reports the C volume label to be the same name as that reported by the Windows98 fdisk! So, I wonder what is happening? Is it just a bug in the Windows Explorer or the actual Windows will expand further than their allocated 12GB partition when they have no space and delete my Debian and FreeBSD stuff when I install them there? Has anyone installed both Debian and Windows98 on the same large disk and came across anything similar? Cheers Dimitris
