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multi-boot 98/nt/linue



On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Vince McHugh wrote:

>
> --- Ron Peterson <ron.peterson at yellowbank.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Vince McHugh wrote:
> >
> > > 2nd Make Sure you say NO when asked if you want
> > large
> > > disk support during Win98 setup. This will make
> > sure
> > > that Win98 is installed on Fat and not Fat32. it
> > will
> > > also limit the Windows system partion (C:) to 2
> > gigs
> >
> > I'm not sure why you're advocating FAT over FAT32.
> > Either can work.
>
> Because if you are intendng a tri-boot with NT,as the
> subject line indicated, NT won't load into FAT32 and
> 9X won't load into NTFS so FAT s commaon ground.

Huh?  What do you mean by "load into"?

You can certainly tri-boot NT/98/Linux using NTFS/FAT32/ext2, so I'm still
not quite understanding why you'd want to use FAT.

-- 

-Ron-
https://www.yellowbank.com/

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