Some installfest issues

[Derek Atkins]

IIRC NT4 could not, but I believe that W2k can.

-derek

Jim Kelly-Rand <JKelly-rand at kmwarch.com> writes:

> 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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