When I had to re-install Win98 recently (don't ask! heh), the installer 
checked to see whether the partition had DOS formatting or VFAT or 
whatever...

Now I'm confused!

Kathleen, with way too many OSes

>>You do need to configure the partition on which you're going to 
install
>>Windows as a DOS partition before you install Windows, though.
>
>--
>>Kathleen Dickason
>>Registered Linux user #182139
>
>Sorry to butt in; you don't really have to configure any type of 
partition
>when installing Windows.  You can start with an unformatted drive, 
then you
>choose if you want to use FAT 16 or FAT 32 for the filesystem (do you 
want
>to enable large disk support?).  M$ sort of did a number on the public 
with
>their goofy naming scheme; 'Dos' is something similar to the bash, sh 
or
>whatever you *nix shell you want to think of, but they also named 
their
>kernel 'Dos'.  Now with newer Windows products, the Dos shell is 
mostly just
>a crippled way of doing things from the command line.  It's not 
necessary,
>but it exits anyway.
>
>Mike  (if I totally missed the topic, just ignore this)
>
>
>

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