Returning to FAT32, Intel Celeron Processor

Alexander Dalloz alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Thu Sep 2 14:52:24 UTC 2004


Am Do, den 02.09.2004 schrieb Maria Ferrer um 8:48:

> 1.How do I format my hard drive to fat32 again after I install (or begin installing) Linux? I tried using MS-DOS
> and it says that it is not eligable to get formatted. Is there any free utility that I can use? What is the website to it?

Just to prevent frustration: Linux will not run on FAT32 formatted
partitions. You can of course use such formatted partitions to exchange
data between Linux and a Windows[tm] system on the same host. But FAT32
is no filesystem any Linux will run on.

Alexander


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