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> 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
Firstly 2.0.34 does have vfat, however you need to define NLS, Native
language support (CONFIG_NLS) i suggest you define it as a module, then
define "all" code pages as modules also, if you say "N" to NLS you will not
be able to define vfat, dos or iso9660 filesystems at all.
> > What's the best way of upgrading the kernel? I assume I will also have
If you want to upgrade to kernel 2.0.35 you have 2 possabilitys,
1) get patch-2.0.33.gz patch-2.0.34.gz patch-2.0.35.gz
from ftp.kernel.org (or some mirror site)
To apply the patches put them in /usr/src and do;
cd /usr/src/
gzip -cd patch-2.0.33.gz | patch -p0 -s
same thing for patch 24 and 35.
Note.. The above method will only work properly IF you have an origanal
2.0.32 kernel source which has not been tamperd with in ANY way.
2) Get linux-2.0.35.tar.gz
Before untarring you need to tidy up the directorys and move links.
cd /usr/src/
Normaly the linux directory will be a symbolic link remove it first.
rm linux
If linux is a normal directory do;
mv linux linux-2.0.32
mkdir linux-2.0.35
ln -s linux-2.0.35 linux
tar xzf linux-2.0.35.tar.gz
The following needs to be done after doing 1) or 2)
cd /usr/include
rm -rf asm linux scsi
ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386 asm
ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux linux
ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/scsi scsi
cd /usr/src/linux
make mrproper
read the README in that directory for more spesific details on making the
kernel.
HOpe this helps.
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> 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
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> >
> > Any advice appreciated,
> >
> > Martin
> >
>
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Regards Richard.
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