Thought I'd add this mail I got to the discussion. Incidentally, my list came from lwn.net.
Andrew Agno uttered: > > Is there any way of installing Linux onto a FAT (Win 98) part. , > > without standing the risk of losing data (either of the disk or of > > the partition ) ? > > Yes there are ways to do this--check out Phat Linux, Armed Linux, or > Dragon Linux. > > Andrew. > Don't neglect Zip-slack (www.slackware.com). But my experience with running linux on vfat has been poor. Blow the $25 on a used 2 GB IDE drive and dedicate it to Linux... PM