-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Yes, they can read fat or fat32 just fine. I don't recommend using fat or fat32 for your root filesystem for a variety of reasons, but if you have a partition for Linux and one for DOS Linux can read the DOS one just fine. Joe 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 - -- PGP SIGNED AND ENCRYPTED MAIL PREFERED Key ID: DA522C2A Key Fingerprint: 30FA 1B4F 8499 7206 549D BC3D C87C 8CDA DA52 2C2A Joseph C. Lininger, <jbahm at pcdesk.net> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQEVAwUBR44Kish8jNraUiwqAQrPqgf+PyqKQ+gDbul4aRrN8sOunOiJkIjRp+Zo 8crR2ZELDuRiKh/oPlecNRWVQM91YinYVGH1XcWAplO2LnJkAn7nTLq65DKf+T2M 44iFPcPifgq7zfN9T+kezDL4mQTH3I5+3CUUt9lLQkL9ZuywZMDenbf2sPBKftA3 /EuwOA8Z0tYxGcomCUEkSuGiZhTmIYMhm6gGWmv+m8W8hqDCzdUOLSUBe74Fm0R+ yujnHsWcH8O2h8DrG7oUkadB8bNrQQWuksAQn7ip3X2bqm89QC825Rny6NDgGM4w L+uNsMLleB82iXJkz9rFpYBOdwjygeMDy8TlcJtA7htjgC5VkRndyA== =EPCw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
