Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] Re: Fat32 patch
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Hubert Mantel wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, zentara wrote:
It just dawned on me, that my old Caldera Linux 1.1 distribution had an option in the kernel menuconfig for fat32 support, along with vfat.
How come it isn't in SuSe 5.1 ?
This patch changes fundamental parts of the kernel. As long as Linus himself does not include this patch into the official kernel, we want to be on the safe side. I do not want to read postings "S.u.S.E.'s patched kernel ate my harddisk" ;-)
Anyone know where to get the kernel patch?
Unpack the archive /unsorted/patches/kernel-patches.tgz on CD#1. There you will find the VFAT32 Patch, the NTFS driver and some other useful things that did not yet make their way into the standard kernel.
Hi Hubert, I don't want to get you upset, since you know all the answers.:-) But that patch dosn't work, or else I'm way off in applying it. First it isn't named VFAT32, its called fat32_joliet_nls_patch-0.2.8. And it apparently was for "linux-2.0.31-clean" ; cause it won't work on "linux-2.0.33.pre.SuSE.3". All it did was REMOVE the vfat option from the filesystems menu in menuconfig. I don't use fat32 anyways, so it really dosn't matter--no complaints. But it would be nice to tell people that SuSe supports fat32, and even Microsoft dosn't yet in NT. I seem to remember it worked OK under Caldera, it didn't seem buggy. zentara -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
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