The following was sent to me; it doesn't get back to the original poster.
It seemed to me to be obvious, but maybe not. --doug
>From: "Eduardo Arista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Doug McGarrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 12:03:31 -0000
>Subject: Re: RH/Win95 war
>Priority: normal
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>maybe this is late:
>Did you run msdos fdisk?.
>And after that format -ed it?
>This is so elemental...
>Of course check any lastdrive statement in your msdos config.sys
>Hope to be of any help.
>Eduardo
>
>
>On 28 May 2000, at 20:47, Doug McGarrett wrote:
>
>> Yo9u wrote, quote:
>>
>> Hello Everyone:
>>
>> I seem to have a problem. I have installed a third drive on my Intel box
>> for RH and it works great. However, since the drive is so large, I want
>> to use 6 gig of it for DOS/Win95 data but DOS/Win doesn't 'see' it. Is
>> there any way I can get DOS/Win to access that one partition? The
>> partition layout is shown below:
>>
>> NEW
>> _hda________ _hdb___________ _hdc_______ _________
>> | C: DOS | | D: DOS/Win95 | | RH 6.2 | | F:
>> /cdrom |
>> |___________| |__data_________| |__________| |_________|
>> | E: Win95 | | old RH swap | | new swap |
>> |___________| |______________| |__________|
>> | ext2
>> fs |
>>
>> |__________|
>> |
>> fat32 |
>> this one > |__________|
>> < this one
>>
>> End quote.
>>
>> In config.sys do you have a lastdrive configured? I can't figure out from
>> your diagram what DOS drive your new partition would be, but if you don't
>> have network drives configured in DOS/Windows, you could say lastdrive=z.
>>
>> If you do have network drives configured, you could have a conflict. Move
>> your network drive logins to the end of the alphabet and then set lastdrive
>> to the last alpha character before your network drives. That might make
the
>> new partition available.
>>
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