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From: "Anand Singh Bisen" <imbbpl AT mp DOT mp DOT nic DOT in>
To: "DJGPP Mailing List" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Linux and GNU C
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 15:52:16 +0530
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>On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Anand Singh Bisen wrote:
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>> Hello
>>
>>         I have installed Red Hat 5 Linux on my hard disk partition of 1 =
>> GB and rest of t 3.3 GB is working with win 98. As i wanted to work in =
>> both GNU Cand DJGPP. BOth the OS are working fine but when i try to =
>> mount win partition in DJGPP it says unknown file system. I had used =
>> linux earlier but with FAT 16 i.e. MSDOS partition so i wanted to know =
>> is there any way by which i can mount my VFAT32 file system with linux =
>> since it would be very difficult to transfer files by the help of 1.2 MB
>> floppies.
>>
>
>Yes. Upgrade kernel to 2.0.35 (also 2.0.34 will be Ok). These 2 versions
>supports VFAT32. Simply mount partition as VFAT and all should be Ok.
>
Ok i have copied the upgrade file for kernel 2.0.35 from the redhat ftp but
the problem is how to install the rpm file. When i try to do that with
rpm --install or rpm --upgrade command it shows some error message like
//var/....  file not found.


>But DON'T compile Linux kernel (at last 2.0.XX) with gcc-2.8.X. Use
>gcc-2.7.2.3 for that.