Michael W. Ryan on Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:25:39 -0500 (EST)


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Re: [Plug] That idiotic cylinder 1024 problem


On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Michelle Weber wrote:

> How do 98 and NT share the same boot partition? My current 98 partition is
> fat32... I don't know, but I thought NT couldn't handle fat32, and what if
> I made my NT partition NTFS?

You can only have Win9x cohabitate with WinNT if the partition is FAT16.
WinNT cannot read FAT32 and Win9x cannot read NTFS.  I'm not 100% certain,
but I think Win2k can read FAT32.

> Or couldn't I also put the linux boot partition on the first part of the
> 2nd drive, that works right?

By all means.  That's how I have my system at home setup.

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