Some installfest issues

[drew at drewtaylor.com (Drew Taylor)]

W2k can definitely read FAT32 partitions - on my home system I have no NTFS 
partitions at the moment.

Drew

At 03:00 PM 4/22/02 -0400, Jim Kelly-Rand wrote:
>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
> > To: BLU Discuss List
> > Subject: RE: Some installfest issues
> >
> >
> > 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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