Quote Originally Posted by mikecriley
I am booting from CD with 3.8; I have installed a brand new 160 GIG drive. I used cfdisk to created a new fat16 partition then I created a file system on it mkfs.msdos
How big was the partiton and how big was the FAT16 filesystem you put on it? The FAT16 filesystem has a limit of 4GB: FAT/NTFS limits
Any reason why you used FAT16 instead of ext3 or reiserfs?

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