First post, by Hamby
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Okay, I'm getting ready to assemble my dual xeon system and install LinuxMint on it (primary use is 3D gfx and video editing).
I'm confident that I'm going to want to be able to (hopefully easily) transfer files between it and my 286, 486, and K6-II systems which will be running DOS 6.22, Dos 6.22/WFW 3.11, and Win98se. yes, all machines have ethernet adapters and can access the network.
I'm trying to partition its drive correctly (it's been a long time); a swap partition, root partition, and maybe usr partition?
But should I create an NTFS, ExFAT, a FAT32 and/or FAT16 partition on the drive for the sake of those vintage OSes, to facilitate file transfers?
I can currently access my Win7 machines SMB shares under WFW 3.11. I'm hoping I can do the same thing with Samba under Linux, but I know Linux uses different filesystems, such as Ext4, BtrFS and XFS. Is there one of these I should use over the others since I intend networking with vintage systems? (oh, man, just realized I'm going to want to access it from my iMac g3, too...)
Anyone able to give me some advice before I start installing LinuxMint?