>>>2nd Make Sure you say NO when asked if you want large disk
>>>support during Win98 setup. This will make sure that Win98
>>>is installed on Fat and not Fat32. it will also limit the
>>>Windows system partion (C:) to 2 gigs
>>
>> I'm not sure why you're advocating FAT over FAT32.
>> Either can work.
>
>Because if you are intendng a tri-boot with NT,as the
>subject line indicated, NT won't load into FAT32 and
>9X won't load into NTFS so FAT s commaon ground.
(I didn't see the beginning of this thread
so apologies if I'm missing the point here)
I once installed win98 on a machine that had previously
been an NT-only box and, indeed, win98 basically refused
to have anything to do with the NTFS partitions.
I changed one partition over to FAT32 and win98
grudgingly agreed to live there and ignore the others.
Shortly after that I wiped win98 and installed Linux
which happily allowed access to the FAT32 partition
and the NTFS partitions along with its native ext2
partition. So, it seems that one clunky alternative
might be to use the best (rather than the suggested
lowest-common-denominator) partition/filesystem layout
and then boot Linux to transfer data between the various
worlds if your need to do so were rare enough...
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