Re: dual boot?? win98???
"Evan Van Dyke" <vandyke@bme.ri.ccf.org> writes:
| > From: S K [mailto:skgold1@hotmail.com]
| > Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 1998 9:29 AM
| > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
| > Subject: dual boot?? win98???
| >
| >
| > I'm trying to install Debian linux, but not entirely ready to
| > throw away
| > my windows 98. is it possible to use both on a single
| > machine, perhaps
| > through dual boot? (if so, how?) does win98's fat32 cause
| > any trouble
| > for this?
| >
| > thanks in advance
|
| I'm running a dual boot system. Make sure you have enough free space for a
| new
| partition and install Linux on it. Then just add the Windows partition
| to the lilo.conf file, and run 'lilo'. As to reading fat32 partitions,
| the 2.0.34 kernel(if not earlier ones) can read them with no
| problem... just mount them.
In fact this only works for the 2.0.34 kernel. Before 2.0.34 you had
to apply a patch to be able to read FAT32.
As with Evan I've been using a dual boot with Win98, with about 5 1GB
FAT32 partitions, and 1 900MB FAT16 partition, and haven't had any
trouble. However, there are reports on the kernel mailing list of
people getting corrupted FAT32 partitions if you do something from
linux that fills up that FAT32 partition.
So, I'd suggest caution if you're planning on copying/creating enough
files to/on a FAT32 partition, from linux, that it might fill that
partition. It seems to be problematic with the current FAT32 support.
Gary
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