On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, reds wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I upgraded my computer and also both the OS on it. Previously i was
> >working with Win95 and Slackware,
> >
> >Now i have installed Win 98 and Redhat 5.0 on my computer.
> >
> >In slackware all the dos and windows drives were mounted automatically,
> >in red hat it doesn;t do so. I tried mounting my win 98 partition which
> >is FAT32 but could not do so.
> >
> >I can access other FAT partions in my computer with the command
> >mount -t msdos /dev/hdc5 /mnt/dosd
> >But all the long file names are lost and i get files in 8.3 format,
> >
> >How can i mount the FAT as well as FAT32 drives properly in Redhat. Do i
> >need to get a patch ??
> >this is important as i move stuffs from work to home on a zip drive and
> >lots of tar, rpm etc are now in my win drives. i cannot access it.
> >
> >Hope to get some help, thanks in advance
> >
> >gaurab
> >
> >Gaurab Raj Upadhaya
> >GPO BOX 13655
> >Kathmandu
> >Nepal
> >
> I believe using Vfat as the filesys will work if you have the support
> compiled in.
>
Yes, but vfat supports FAT32 only since kernel 2.0.35, so you will have to
upgrade your kernel.
Frank
>
