quick basic, maybe silly queston?

[Karen Lewellen]

Hi all,
I would rather look silly, than make a mistake, especially since at least 
the DOS  factor will be one before I get my new machine.
Having one built that will run an edition of DOS as its main os with Linux 
on a separate drive.
Here is the silly question.
Can distros like Fedora and ebian read fat 32 partitions?
There are a few advantages to this in DOS, so I am wanting to use one that 
supports fat 32 unless this will create a problem for the Linux 
distribution.
Answer off list if this is just too newby a question lol.
Karen