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Re: 6 short questions from a Redhat newbie

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (timsoftware@liposome.genebee.msu.s)
Fri Oct 23 08:52:35 1998

From: timsoftware@liposome.genebee.msu.su
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 16:50:49 +0400 (MSD)
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In-Reply-To: <199810231240.WAA27869@mail.eisa.net.au>
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On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Nelson Little wrote:

> 
> >> 1) Can I mount a hard disk that has been formated with vfat32 support in
> >> RH5.0? If so how? (I recently upgraded my kernel to 2.0.35-2)
> 
> >Yes you can!
> >Compile your kernel to support vfat32 and then mount it as always:
> >mount /dev/hdx /anydirectory 
> >I hope that will help, but i'm not sure.
> 
> How do I compile my kernel to support vfat or vfat32? Someone told me, and
> I read that, I should go to /usr/scr/linux and type make menuconfig but
> that didn't do anything for me.
> 
> Thanks,
> Nelson
> 
Compiling of a kernel is not very difficuilt if you know what hardware is
installed on your PC.
FOR more information read /usr/src/linux/README
I hope that'll help. Try to find Linux Guru around!
Tim


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