Hi Karen, If it has been kept up, zipslack is a version that you can install on a FAT32 partition. Zipslack is a distro of Slackware. I think they all can read FAT32, and probably write to it. Maybe you can install any version on a FAT32 partition. HTH. Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Lewellen" <klewellen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 12:14 AM Subject: quick basic, maybe silly queston? Hi all, I would rather look silly, than make a mistake, especially since at least the DOS factor will be one before I get my new machine. Having one built that will run an edition of DOS as its main os with Linux on a separate drive. Here is the silly question. Can distros like Fedora and ebian read fat 32 partitions? There are a few advantages to this in DOS, so I am wanting to use one that supports fat 32 unless this will create a problem for the Linux distribution. Answer off list if this is just too newby a question lol. Karen -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup