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[Ken Martwick <kenm AT surfbest.net>]

sindi keesan wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, James Miller wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> >
> > > > Are vfat and msdos the same thing?
> > >
> > >
> > > No.  msdos was for DOS.  vfat was for Windows (95 I think).
> > > vfat is similar to mdsos but has long filenames.
> >
> >
> > I believe msdos is FAT16 while vfat is FAT32. The latter supports long
> > file names and drives over 2GB. FAT16 is limited to 2GB partition sizes
> > and 8.3 filenames.
>
>
> msdos/fat16 should be quite adequate then for a 100MB zip drive and we 
> won't reformat.  That way we can also access it from any DOS.
>
> > James
>
>
> Has anyone tried the latest freedos himem and emm386 to see if they 
> will work with loadlin?  The old emm386 required doing something 
> complicated so we simply did not use it.  We are getting low on DOS 
> memory now (with pcmcia card and zip drivers).  We want to put freedos 
> not 7.10 on this next computer before learning to use zip drives in 
> linux.
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   I use FreeDOS and himem.sys all the time with loadlin, though i do 
not use emm386.  There are no problems with recent kernels.
Ken Martwick