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by **Abe Waranowit** » Sun, 09 Feb 1997 04:00:00

Hello!

Anyone know how I could get RH4.1 do recognize
an OS/2 partition from the install/supp disks?
It only sees my DOS/Linux partitions for the
source...

Thanks!

BTW, how would I install from a DOS partition
with all those long file names...

-Abe

by **Jurgen Exne** » Sun, 09 Feb 1997 04:00:00

Quote:> Anyone know how I could get RH4.1 do recognize
> an OS/2 partition from the install/supp disks?
> It only sees my DOS/Linux partitions for the
> source...

Most probably you are out of luck.
AFAIK HPFS is not supported by any of the boot kernels of the standard
distributions.
Get a good friend to compile a custom bootstrap kernel with HPFS support.

Quote:> BTW, how would I install from a DOS partition
> with all those long file names...

1. You are confusing the partition type and the file system type.
A DOS partition (partition ID 6) can contain various file systems like
FAT12, FAT16 and VFAT. Only FAT12 and FAT16 are restricted to 8.3 notation.

2. All packages for Slackware are in the 8.3 format and can be installed
even from a FAT12 or FAT16 file system

jue

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