At 21:03 15/10/98 -0500, Mike or Carole Duncan wrote:
>hello all--
>
>I have installed a relatively old version of Linux (2.0.18) that I
>bought a couple of years ago onto a 4G drive. On my second drive
>(8.4G), I have Windows 95 with the new (?) FAT32 file system. This
>situation is pretty nice as I can choose which OS to boot to by merely
>choosing the drive from with the BIOS setup. However, since I have
>upgraded the FAT on my windows drive, Linux will not recognize the
>drive. I would like to be able to read the drive since I am still in
>the process of upgrading Linux, and I need to DL the various
>packages/files using windows.
>
>Can anyone point me in the right direction for recoginizing FAT32
>drives??
Hello!
You will have to upgrade your kernel to at least 2.0.34 but since 2.0.35 is
out, why not go all the way? you could either get a lot of patches (i.e.
from 2.0.19 through to 2.0.35) or just download the whole 2.0.35 kernel
source. that will take longer as it is a few meg but will probably give
you less strife. I think patching only works if you have a clean kernel
source tree.
The 2.0.35 kernel gives long filename support and reads VFAT32 for win95B
(OSR2) and win98 (i guess).
regards,
adrian b.
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