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| BOOTDISK, SCHMOOTDISK |  | Category: Tech
Wednesday, September 1st, 2004 @ 10:51 am
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 As many of you know, I dual boot my machine between Gentoo Linux and Windows 2000. I have a second harddrive in my machine for things like mp3's and digital camera pictures that I want available to me no matter what OS I booted to, but the only filesystem that both Windows and Linux can read and write to is Windows95/98's FAT32 file system.
Well, Linux has FAT32 utilities, but I've read in a couple places that sometimes Windows doesn't like FAT32 partitions that msdostools for Linux have formatted, so it's best to use Windows 98's fdisk and format commands which you can get off of a Win98 bootdisk. The problem is I don't have Windows 98, so I have no way to make a bootdisk, and while looking for one on the intarweb all I could find was executable programs for Windows that generate bootdisks. No help for a Linux user there. I also saw quite a few Linux users lamenting this same situation on message boards so I figured I'd bite the bullet and take one for the team.
I downloaded a Win98 bootdisk/rescue disk generator with CDROM support from BootDisk.com and fired up my Windows 2000 install and created a workable bootdisk. After booting to it to verify that it works (and to fdisk and format my FAT32 disk), I loaded Linux back up and ripped a hot, steamy new Windows98 bootdisk image that Linux users can use the dd command to write a disk with. I'm sure Windows users can user rawrite to write a disk with it too, but they already have the abundance of executable disk generators mentioned above, why would they?
Anywho, click here to download the Win98se bootdisk image.
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