[svlug] installing linux on a disk containing wndows95

[Rick Moen]

Chris Mason wrote:

> Someone called me today about installing openlinux lite from caldera
> on top of an existing windows95 harddisk.
> I wasn't sure about it, maybe it has rawrite and is like slakware.
> Does fips work with vfat?  Or does he have to reinstall everything?

Caldera OpenLinux Lite does indeed have fips and rawrite.  Yes, fips
works with VFAT (which differs from regular FAT only in having some
squirrely extra directory entries with volume label attribute).  Don't 
forget to defrag, first, and (before that) remove the system 
attribute from files that defrag should be enabled to move.
 
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