On Jan 19, 2000 at 11:42, Philip S Tellis wrote:

[formatting windows partitions in linux]
> Yes it is possible, but no, you shouldn't do that.  Linux can format a
> partition as any of the partition types listed through fdisk.  Why you
> shouldn't do it:

Practically, I found out the hard way that it doesn't work too well. Must
fdisk/format in DOS. (How the heck do you intsall to a virgin disk in a
virgin system??)

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