DeMoN LaG wrote:

> Morten Nilsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 17 Dec 2001: 
> 
> 
>>Albert wrote:
>>
>>
>>>The only thing preventing my migration is an error message in RH
>>>7.2 that says "Warning!  FAT32 support is still ALPHA!" (nuisance
>>>only) and the fact that no one supports USB wireless network cards
>>>=( 
>>>
>>>
>>Huh? last time I had a FAT32 partition, I used it with less trouble
>>in linux than from windows...
>>NTFS on the other hand... is another story
>>
>>
> 
> Why would anyone put a FAT32 partition on a Linux box?  If you migrated 
> entirely over to linux, you wouldn't have a FAT32 partition to have 
> alpha support on.  The USB wireless cards yes, that's an issue, but the 
> file system is no problem at all
> 
> 

As someone who dual-boots (although I haven't booted into Windows for 
quite some time), access to a FAT32 partition is necessary. I'm 
surprised that RedHat 7.2 says the support is ALPHA. Linux has been 
working with FAT32 for a very long time. I've never had trouble with 
FAT32 and linux. Now, Win2K and FAT32 I HAVE had problems with...

Tim


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