RE: linux 4.0

[David Sugar <dyfet@tycho.com>]

   >> Yup, sure can.  Actually, win95 has it's own dos/95 boot function,
   >>so you  can use lilo or loadlin to handle the booting of linux.
   >One thing you'll
   >Uh... not anymore it doesnt.... depending on what sub-maintenance
   >release you got, MS yanked the boot-to-previous DOS option due to
   >incompatibilites with a fix in the VFAT file system...  if you have
   >the first cut of Win95 you still do, the second does not....

Win95"B", only available as OEM release for new machines, supports a completely new "VFAT32" filesystem, which is incompatible with standard VFAT (or older DOS's).  Hence, you now have new machines now shipped preformatted for VFAT32 with Win95 "B".  I don't think you can "FIPS" a VFAT32 partition yet, and even if you could, nothing recognizes it (not even NT, hence one cannot "dualboot" Win95"B" and WinNT by normal means since the NT loader cannot sit on a VFAT32 partition, though I bet Lilo can be made to do it :).

Incidently, Win95 "B" does fix some bugs in Win95 and the one publicly available service pack, and, though it crashes a little less frequently, it has some different problems of it's own.  But, fortunately, we are not here to discuss the virtues (and many limitations) of Windows.  Within the contex of this discussion, my own only question is does the current dosfs/vfatfs support this new mutant (vfat32), or will we see yet another vfat fs added to Linux!?
  

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