-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yes, the linux kernel has had reliable read/write fat32 support for a good while now. Note though that checking a fat32 file system under gnu/linux, and fixing any errors that are found is a different story, but reading/writing isn't a problem. Hth. Greg On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 01:14:17AM -0500, Karen Lewellen wrote: > 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 - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHja1U7s9z/XlyUyARAhAEAKCQTK+kS2SoLGWnV++FxIH22qj4kACfT0yc 57KQ7D+nwsZ65/BO+aShVh4= =X8cr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----