Setting up a duel boot system?

[Gregory Nowak]

No, because FAT16 partitions cannot be more then 2gb. That's why M$ came up with
FAT32 so that partitions more then 2gb could be created.
This is the short answer, since I don't know that much about FAT32 specs.
Greg


On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 04:12:25AM +0000, Doug Lawlor wrote:
> Hello list, Here is what I need to do.  I have two drives here.  One is a 
> 20Gb/7200rpm and the second is a 40GB/5400 RPM.  I want to set up Linux and 
> Windows on the first drive and use my second for data storage.  .  When I 
> use the windows Fdisk command to create the Windows partition I get asked 
> If I want large disk support.  Fdisk gives me a message stating something 
> to the effect If I enable this no other operating system will be able to 
> use the drive.  I know that is not quite true but Fdisk also goes on to 
> tell me if I disable large disk support Windows will only support 
> partitions up to 2GB.  Can I disable the large disk support and create a 
> partition that's larger than two GB?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Doug
> 
> 
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