Oh, I should have included this in the previous reply…

Let me explain why sometimes Only a 2GB FAT16 and sometimes the Entire Drive as 
FAT32.

On real hardware, the user is most likely going to want to multi-boot other 
operating systems. Therefore by default, when the Installer creates the 
partition it will limit it to 2GB. Again, this should be plenty. But, it is 
also easy to make it larger manually. Furthermore, auto-partitioning only 
happens on real hardware when the drive is completely empty. Otherwise, the 
user is sent over into FDISK to partition it themselves. 

Inside a virtual machine, it will use the entire drive by default. Other than 
doing some weird testing of multi-booting operating systems, the user is most 
likely intending to use the whole thing for DOS. If not, they can pre-prepare 
the DOS partition to use less space. 

It makes sense to me. But, maybe I’m wrong. 

:-)

Jerome

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