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Windows 95 problem




Jerry Feldman wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:

 JF> fdisk /mbr will cause the master boot record to go away.

Yes, and it will also make the D: partition inaccessible!

 JF> I reiterate that Disk Manager will cause considerable problems 
 JF> in Windows95. 

Windows 95 will cause considerable problems on its own. :-)

 JF> Did you try to boot a Linux kernel from floppy.

I don't know if Linux will directly see a Disk Manager partition type.  I know
that support for this was explicitly added in OS/2, although of course Disk
Manager itself cannot be loaded in any protected mode operating system.
 
-- Mike




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