Author: pete
Date: 03:37:01 03/05/00
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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. I use Windows98SR2 and I have not yet seen any problem with the included DOS version ie every program that needs plain DOS works well here if I boot it into DOS-mode . > >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? You will be able to install LINUX in a FAT32 partition only by repartitioning the disk ; most LINUX packages include a program that is able to look for free place and create a LINUX partition there without damaging your windows sections though . If you know in advance you want to install LINUX later I would advise you just to leave some place ( maybe 2GB ) on your Harddisk unpartitioned ; this is the better way probably . Btw ( to make it a little less off-topic ) LINUX is also nice with crafty ; as you just download the source ; say make ; and then you have the latest and hottest version running on your computer :-) . pete > >Thanks > >Pete
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