Some installfest issues

Jim Kelly-Rand JKelly-rand at kmwarch.com
Mon Apr 22 15:00:22 EDT 2002


I am not sure that NT can read the Fat32 partitions, does anyone know?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerry Feldman [mailto:gaf at blu.org]
> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 2:58 PM
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> 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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