Some installfest issues

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Mon Apr 22 14:57:38 EDT 2002


Why FAT16 though. I would think that if one of the OSs were the original 
Windows95 or earlier, then FAT16 would be necessary. But, FAT32 has been 
used since Windows95 OSR1. 
BTW: Tools like Partition Magic can convert NTFS to FAT32 and ViceVersa.
I would recommend that all NT based systems use NTFS for most of their 
stuff though. 
On 22 Apr 2002 at 14:17, Matthew J. Brodeur wrote:
>    Ditto.  If I were doing another tri-boot I'd have a large FAT32 
> partition separate from the three OS partitions.  If you're still using NT 
> (ugh) you'd have to stick w/ FAT16 for the shared space, though.
>    I have heard of drivers for Windows to access ext2, but I don't know 
> that they're any more stable than the Linux NTFS driver.

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