Re: help needed in fips (re- posted)

["Soumyanath Chatterjee" <soumya_chatt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 21-6-99 : Ankur was caught saying
> I am stuck at the very first step.
> fips is giving me an error right at the beginning
...
> Checking root sector ...
> ***Info: Partition table inconsistency***

I think you are using FAT32 file system.

FIPS is meant to manipulate FAT16 systems only...
Check out - maybe a newer version is available by now.

- - Soumya

- ----- Original Message -----
From: ankura <ankura@xxxxxxx>
To: <linux-india@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 21 June 1999 17:40
Subject: help needed in fips (re- posted)


> am re-sending this post as i did not receive any replies earlier.
> somebody please respond.
> I am stuck at the very first step.
>
>
>
>
> Hi all.
> fips is giving me an error right at the beginning.
>  the output is given below.
> have highlighted the error messages
> I dunno what info about the system is needed.
> it is a pentium MMX digital PC, with Win98 newly installed.
>
> Could someone help ?
> Thanks
> Ankur
>
>
>
>
>
> Checking root sector ...
> ***Info: Partition table inconsistency***
>
> File ERRORS.TXT not found - no verbose messages available
>
> Press any key
>
> Partition table adapted to the current drive geometry:
>
>      |        |     Start      |      |      End       | Start  |Number
of|
> Part.|bootable|Head Cyl. Sector|System|Head Cyl. Sector| Sector |Sectors
|
> MB
> -----+--------+----------------+------+----------------+--------+---------
+-
> ---
> 1    |    yes |   1    0      1|   0Eh|  63  968     63|      63|
> 3906945|1907
> 2    |     no |   0    0      0|   00h|   0    0      0|       0|
0|
> 0
> 3    |     no |   0    0      0|   00h|   0    0      0|       0|
0|
> 0
> 4    |     no |   0    0      0|   00h|   0    0      0|       0|
0|
> 0
> OK
>
> Press any Key
>
> ***Error: Unknown file system: 0Eh****

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