XOSL and FAT16

Following on from my thread of yesterday.

I set up a partition of 16Mb and XOSL said it couldn't find the drive. (Previously it had said the drive wasn't Fat16).

I then tried entering 17Mb in FDISK which automatically created one that was 31.5Mb - still claimed it couldn't be found.

Tried 33Mb through FDISK and it automatically allocated 39Mb.

At this point XOSL was able to find the drive.

Given XOSL only puts about 1/2Mb of data on the drive it seems weird that it doesn't recognise the drive when it's size is less than 39Mb.

Nix
Now that you have XOSL on there, resize the partition downward. But that ain't that big either.

I'm only using FDISK or GDISK.

Don't have Partition Magic.

I only discovered that issue last night when I ghosted my last 3 logical partitions and deleted them via FDISK.

Rebooted, allocated new sizings and restored from ghosts.

Rebooted and the thing just hung.

That's when I tried to restore XOSL and it told me it couldn't find the drive.

BTW, after my question the other day in regards to partitioning and Win2000, I ended up creating 3 separate primary partitions.

1 each for Win98, WinMe and Win2000 and just using XOSL boot loader rather than the one built in to Win2000.

Hi Nix, I use both Patition Magic and XOSL. Depends on exactly what I need.

On Fat 16 Volumes from 16MB to 2GB will work. And what you pick is not necessarily what you get. In setting up partitions you will have more success by staying away from the max min points.

Yeah I figured that what I speciified was not always what I got.

5 became 8
9 became 16
17 became 31.5
33 became 39 etc

Anyway on the XOSL website there was a reference to creating a dedicated partition of 1Mb.

Maybe this was in the days of smaller drives.

If 39Mb is the smallest I can set that gets recognised then that's the way it is.

39Mb out of 20Gb is pretty small (although less than 10 years ago it would have been the size of a hard drive or a decent portion of one).

http://www.ranish.com/part/

Might help in the resizing bit, but is is part of XOSL and maybe you can so the resizing on the like one can do with PM.