Author: James Swafford
Date: 05:52:46 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. You could have several partitions up to 2GB, but that's a pain. > >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? > No, you need to use the ext2 file system. Just delete the partition with fdisk, or do a destructive repartition. You are going to have to create several partitions for Linux - a root / swap / tmp / and usr. Note, you can mount a fat32 partition with Red Hat 6.1 using the vfat file system. Now go get your boot and root on. :-) -- James >Thanks > >Pete
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