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Old 11-25-2003, 03:27 PM   #10 (permalink)
sailor
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Originally posted by arch13
Not true.
As i understand it, the mainstream flavors of *nix such as RH and Mandrake can read Fat32 fine with the correct file system files compiled. If he makes the fappage partition Fat32 it could be seen by both *nix and MS depending on the boot.
Would someone please confirm or deny this?
Yeah, they can both read FAT32. I dont have any experience trying that, but they can do it. IIRC, Linux can read NTFS, but writing is pretty shaky and may end up corrupting files.

I would recommend Mandrake. Install XP first, leaving space for Mandrake. Then, before you spend any time getting XP all configured (in case things screw up), install Mandrake. It should setup dual-booting by itself.

Good luck. Trying Linux is a great learning experience.
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