Mike Fritz wrote in a message to Jack Stein:
JS> I don't think size has anything to do with it.  You can't boot
JS> past 1024, or 1023 cylinders, whatever size that happens to
JS> represent on your system.  I guess it represents 2 gigs on yours? 
JS> It represents 504 megs on mine, which is absolutely no problem for
JS> me, I have 3 OS's in there, how many do you need? My only gripe is
JS> that DOS crap must be in a primary partition, and that is a sick
JS> limitation as far as I'm concerened.
 MF> I know size has nothing to do with it.  But I know DOS fat16
 MF> is limited to 2 gigs.  
But DOS, any version, including DOS/WIN95 and NT cannot boot bast 1024 
cylinders either, and OS/2 is not limited at all as far as size goes, up to I 
reckon 12 gigs, and that is not an OS/2 limit, just a driver limit.
 MF> But then OS/2 can't boot.  
What do you mean OS/2 can't boot?  It can boot any where DOS can boot, plus 
it can boot from a non-primary partition.  
                                              Jack 
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