Re: RedHat 5.1 (34) with Win98 (VFAT)

["Aaron D. Turner" <aturner best com>]

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James,

When we say older versions don't support VFAT, it means they can't read
the data on the parition properly.  It in no way puts your data at risk on
those partitions when you install Linux (unless of course you decide to
delete the VFAT partition with fdisk or DiskDruid).  The 2.0.35 kernel RPM
that Red Hat has on their FTP site, has VFAT support as a module which you
load into memory either via kerneld or with the insmod command.  No
re-compile is required.

Enjoy and good luck!

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On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, James Baxter wrote:

> I thought I was learning but I am not there yet.
> I have a Compaq 6500 laptop with Win98 of the first half of the disk,
> Compaq says it must load VFAT so when I rebuild it in just half the disk
> (3gig) that is what I did. Now I want to install 5.1 (.34) from the CD.
> Since .34 can not support VFAT, what will happen to the VFAT partition when
> I run Linux fdisk or Disk Druid? After installing 34 I will make my first
> attempt at updating the kernel to 35. Will it then support VFAT without a
> compile? How do I then create a mount point for the VFAT partition.
> I am sure this seems rather dumb to some of you but if you would just point
> me to the correct howto or man pages it would help.
> Thanks


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