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Mieky wrote:

> In article <38e02554.10417808@news.ior.com>, Raven wrote:
> >You might remember my last post about the vid card. Well i'm past
> >that, i switched over to sues 6.3
> >I was just wondering how do i access my win partitions in sues. I
> >tried adding
> >/dev/hda1     /mnt/dos        vfat     defaults    00
> >but when i boot i get something about vfat not supported in my kernal.
> >I'm still very new and not quite sure how i add this to my kernal.
> >Thanx!!!
>
> easy. :) first, become root. then:
>
> cd /usr/src/linux/
> make menuconfig
>
> then search through there, that is all the stuff you will need to compile
> a new kernel. it's quite simple. then after you are done, you exit.. it
> asks you if you want to save, you hit "yes".. then type:
>
> make dep
>
> and after that is done, if there are no errors:
>

[ stuff on building the kernel deleted here...]

Don't forget to copy /usr/src/linux/System.map to /boot (after
saving the System.map in /boot, of course). Not doing this may
cause problems up the road.

Raven wrote:
> 
> You might remember my last post about the vid card. Well i'm past
> that, i switched over to sues 6.3
> I was just wondering how do i access my win partitions in sues. I
> tried adding
> /dev/hda1     /mnt/dos        vfat     defaults    00
> but when i boot i get something about vfat not supported in my kernal.
> I'm still very new and not quite sure how i add this to my kernal.
> Thanx!!!

vfat not supported? Hmm, well, I guess you could compile it into the
kernel (or as a module, whatever..), but since you're pretty new to
Linux, that's probably not an option. 

I use SuSE 6.1 myself, and if I'm correct, the default kernel has
support for umsdos, so you might try replacing 'vfat' with 'umsdos'. 

Also, and this is probably a lot simpler, you can add a mount point with
YaST (not sure about YaST2, never seen it). Simply choose the following:

Adjustment of installation -> 
   Set target partitions/filesystems

It's as simple as that!

See ya,

Emerald

In article <38e02554.10417808@news.ior.com>, Raven wrote:
>You might remember my last post about the vid card. Well i'm past
>that, i switched over to sues 6.3
>I was just wondering how do i access my win partitions in sues. I
>tried adding 
>/dev/hda1     /mnt/dos        vfat     defaults    00
>but when i boot i get something about vfat not supported in my kernal.
>I'm still very new and not quite sure how i add this to my kernal.
>Thanx!!!

easy. :) first, become root. then:

cd /usr/src/linux/
make menuconfig

then search through there, that is all the stuff you will need to compile
a new kernel. it's quite simple. then after you are done, you exit.. it
asks you if you want to save, you hit "yes".. then type:

make dep

and after that is done, if there are no errors:

make bzImage

and if there is no errors, then:

cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot

now, i am not sure where kernels go on suse, but if i remember right,
they are in /boot. so that command should work fine. then this:

cd /boot
mv bzImage vmlinuz-kernel_version_number
chmod +x vmlinuz-kernel_version_number
vim /etc/lilo.conf

and then in lilo.conf, add a section for your new kernel. most of the
time, will look something like this:

image=/boot/vmlinuz-kernel_version_number
	label=whatever_you_want
	read-only

now, you may have to add other things. type:

man lilo.conf

to find out if you want anything else. in your lilo script. other than
that, everything should work fine. :)


-- 
-mieky
empurium@xanthor.net

Mieky wrote:
> 
> then search through there, that is all the stuff you will need to compile
> a new kernel. it's quite simple. then after you are done, you exit.. it
> asks you if you want to save, you hit "yes".. then type:

Simple?  Not for a complete newbie!

<snip>

Or better still, why not read the kernel docs in the source if you feel
like going ahead anyway.

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