Care to share why you do not recommend fat 32 for your root? The structure I have in mind is two different hard drives, but I had intended formating both as fat 32.Say on as it will impact the DOS edition chosen. thanks Karen On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Joseph C. Lininger wrote: > -----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----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
