quick basic, maybe silly queston?

[Joseph C. Lininger]

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	Yes, they can read fat or fat32 just fine. I don't recommend using fat
or fat32 for your root filesystem for a variety of reasons, but if you
have a partition for Linux and one for DOS Linux can read the DOS one
just fine.
Joe

Karen Lewellen wrote:
> 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
> 
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