Author: Laurence Chen
Date: 10:55:19 03/04/00
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On March 04, 2000 at 12:42:54, Pete Galati wrote: >I have a new 15.3Gb harddrive now, but I have Windows 95, problem being that it >has dual booting and it's the older version that only uses FAT16 partitions, so >because they can only be used up till a certain sector of the HD, there's whole >big areas of my new HD that will be unusable. > >So I've been avoiding upgrading to Win98 because I'm told that I would no longer >be able to dual boot into the old Dos 6.22, but now doing the upgrade would >allow me to use FAT32 partitions so I could use the whole HD. > >Are there any reasons why I shouldn't do the upgrade? Does anyone know id Linux >can be installed in a FAT32 partition, and can I install a Linux partition >inside a FAT32 partition? > >Thanks > >Pete Reason to install Windows 98 is a more stable than Windows 95. Kernel 32 errors are very very frequent in Windows 95. That would be reason enough to switch to Windows 98. Also, FAT32 is better than FAT16 in terms of cluster space usage in the HD, besides the fact it can use big hard drives. Yes, it is true that you cannot dual boot old DOS 6.22 with Windows 98 because old Dos still uses FAT16. Linux will not work with FAT32. Nor NT 4. However, you may want to partition your Hard Drive with C and D partitions, where C partition would maintain the FAT16, maximum hard drive size allowed is 2048 MB for FAT16, and use the rest of the Hard Drive for FAT 32 as partition D. Perhaps that is the way you want to go. Laurence
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