According to Nasser Hasian: While burning my CPU.
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> I'm a Linux Newbie myself, but If I'm not mistaken, You can't install LILO
> on a FAT32 partition. A good majority of people are formatting their
> drives
You are mistaken, LILO can be installed on the MBR, which is "outside" of
any partition.
> (for the simple reason that hard disks are usually >4gigs nowadays) into
> one big FAT32 partition for convenience, and it actually saves quite a
> bit of
I dont know what the ratio would be (fors and againsts) but i for one would
not want a 4gb partition.
That is also advised against in many linux documents.
> disk space over FAT16 with the file cluster size issue... Anyways,
> if you'd like to use LILO to dual boot between Win9x/Linux, you must have
> the boot device be a FAT16 drive. Or you could use Norton's System
> commander to boot between operating systems...
I beleive LILO is impartital to filesystems, meaning it boots any.
> Or if you BIOS supports, you can just tell it to boot from Hard Disk 1
> instead of Hard Disk 0.
Not an option.
>
> Wow, usually I just lurk. Now look at what you made me do.
You are welcome to lurk longer, they say this list is very informative.
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