>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.
