IIRC, Windows 98 had a utility for upgrading from FAT to FAT32, which, in all its wisdom, it installs by default even if you have no FAT partitions on your drive.
As far as NTFS and Linux, the only issue is that Linux can't write to NTFS. It can read to it just fine, and either way it has no problems with an NTFS partition simply existing. I dual-boot XP and Mandrake 9. XP's on an NTFS partition, Mandrake's on two ext3 partitions and a swap partition, and there's a one Gig FAT32 partition that both can write to for transfer. (That part's only important in transferring stuff from the Linux side to the XP side. To go XP to Linux, I just write the file to the NTFS partition, since Linux can read that anyway.)
I'd recommend putting Win2k on an NTFS partition. It's supposed to perform much better. |
