> There are two changes I would like to see in Redhat 5.1.
Just a thought but... if you want stuff in Red Hat, I recommend sending
your suggestions _to_ Red Hat directly. Of course there is nothing wrong
with telling us too!
Quote:> The first is :
> Provide an FDISK in linux that recognizes type E and F partitions
> that are created by windows 95 fdisk. I had to backup and recreate
> them as type 5 and 6 (no INT13 extensions) so I could install
> Redhat 5. FDISK must keep up with what's happening in windows95.
> Also I don't know if FDISK recognizes FAT32 partitions, but if
> it doesn't it should.
This is something that should be in fdisk in general, not just a Red Hat
thing. Type B FAT32 partitions are recognized by the current fdisk, but
AFAIK it doesn't support MS's stupid new partition type #s for unchanged
partition types. Howevere there is no need to recreate the partitions!
Just use Linux's fdisk to change the partition type back to 5 or 6, since
the new types are identical to the old (at least according to MS's web
site)
This would probably be fairly easy to change in the kernel
(although I'm not a kernel hacker so I don't know for sure). I'm not sure
whether fdisk would actually need to be changed, I'm not 100% sure how its
internals work.
Quote:> Provide a kernel with FAT32 built in. There are more and
> more posts about accessing FAT32 partitions. This
> support should be built into the kernel and not have to
> be patched in.
I agree with you 100% on this one! Slackware has included a FAT32 kernel
for quite some time. When I installed the brand new Red Hat 5 for the
first time I was shocked to find that it had no FAT32 support - especially
since I'd spent about an hour downloading Red Hat onto my hard drive to
install it from, but couldn't because it was a FAT32 partition.
(Fortunately Red Hat does have the FTP install option so I was able to
install anyway, but it took longer than I planned).
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