On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Martin Roberts wrote:
> I have RH5.0 running nicely now but I believe the kernel version
> (2.0.32) does not give me FAT32 support. I have read that versions
> above 2.0.35 have support for FAT32 partitions? Is it read/write
> support?
Yes, 2.0.35 supports FAT32 partitions but actually 2.0.34 introduced this
feature.
you can do
mount /dev/some_FAT32_partition -t vfat /some_dir
> What's the best way of upgrading the kernel? I assume I will also have
Weel, configure the kernel as you need it for your system, and say "y"
to vfat support in the kernel configuration menu program at "Filsystems".
> to modify fstab - currently it says "ignore" for hda1 (my win95
> partition). Do I replace this with "vfat".
you can put a line like
/dev/hda1 /dosc vfat rw 1 1
>
> Any advice appreciated,
>
> Martin
>
