[ILUG] W2K and RH7.1 dual on an Inspiron 8100: how to partiti on?

[Baldwin_James at emc.com]

I tend to agree with Fred....

To install a nice new Inspiron 8100 with FAT32 makes perfect sense nowadays
when one can triple-boot Win2k + Linux(which nearly all distros have FAT32
translation)

I, fer one would perfer a new 20 gig laptop drive to be part'ed into least
amount of splits...easier for newcomers, etc to handle...

Also anyways, I know FAT16 2giger can cause problems on a laptop with 512mb
Win2k unattended install with office as it runs outta disk space 'cause of
the 512mb swap

J.


-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Cummins [mailto:fred.cummins at ucd.ie]
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 9:19 AM
To: ilug at linux.ie
Subject: Re: [ILUG] W2K and RH7.1 dual on an Inspiron 8100: how to
partition?


> I imagine
> Dell aren't stupid enough to install it on FAT 32)
> 
They did.  I wasn't aware that that was a stupid thing, but it is
definitely FAT32 and they include a utility to convert it to NTFS.

fred
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