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

[Gavin McCullagh]

On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Niall O Broin wrote:

> if the BBC could successfully mount an NTFS partition, which it can't
> (presuming that the W2K being discussed is on an NTFS partition - I imagine
> Dell aren't stupid enough to install it on FAT 32)

oddly enough we recently purchased a Compaq laptop and I was quite
surprised to find it was on FAT32.  As Sean recently pointed out to me
offlist, it's not such a bad thing in the sense that you can easily make a
bootdisk (be it linux or dos) which will mount FAT32 should a problem
occur.  We're also likely to soon use FIPS on it which is another reason
I'm glad (personlly) it's FAT32.

Still, don't know if DELL use NTFS, but I wouldn't assume.

Gavin