“This assumes you will be starting from scratch and will
reformat/repartition. A bit of background on microsoft disk
formats and which OSs understand which.”
“WindowsNT FAT16 NTFS
Windows98 FAT16 FAT32″
“So it makes sense to use FAT16 for a dual boot system (at least
for the partition that the OS resides on) because both NT and 98
can understand it natively. Linux can mount FAT16 and FAT32 with
smbfs which has been incorporated into the kernel…”
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