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From: "Damian Yerrick" <d_yerrick AT hotmail DOT com>
To: "Prashant TR" <prashant_news AT yahoo DOT com>
Cc: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Go32-v2 says DPMI can't see all of my hard drive.
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 14:11:31 -0500
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Prashant TR <prashant_news AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
> --- Damian Yerrick <web DOT poison AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com> wrote:
> > I run go32-v2 with no args under Windows 9x, and it
> > tells me
> >
> > DPMI memory available: 26201 Kb
> > DPMI swap space available: 36027 Kb
> >
> > I have a 6 gig hard disk with 3 gig free. Where is
> > the rest of the swap space?
> 
> You must have partitioned your HDD, right ?

There is only one FAT32 partition, C:

> So, how much of free space do you have in C: ?

3,536,650,240 bytes (3.29 GB)

> That's what you're probably getting.
> Anyway, this is just a guess.

Any other guesses? Or is it that XMS and/or DPMI
only allow 64 MB of XMS memory?

I'd like to partition my HD to install Caldera or Red Hat
Linux, but what freeware will shrink the FAT32 partition
by a gigabyte and leave its files intact?

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