My RedHat 7.1 does not support vfat filesystem. Discovered this while trying to access Win 98. This is surprising because I could access my Windows 9x partitions nicely during earlier installs of RH 7.1.
Also tried to access my Caldera OpenLinux from RedHat. Am getting a message that says, "Cannot get magic numbers for /dev/hda7". What is this bit?
Another problem is kppp daemon dies after dialling gets over. How does one overcome this and connect?
Thanx in advance.

Oh yes, it does!!! I didn't have any problem
accessing my Win98 under RedHat Linux 7.1
and when I upgrade to 7.2, still don't have
problem, either. Exactly how did you try
to mount your Win98 anyway?

Lawrence

Lawrence, I created a row in /etc/fstab the usual way. It read something like this:

/dev/hdb1 /mnt/dos vfat defaults 0 0

Earlier, it worked even with 'auto' instead of 'vfat'. It's only now that I am told vfat isn't supported.
Any clues about the kppp daemon perishing?

I don't really understand your last message!
You say that RedHat Linux 7.1 was able to
mount vfat before but now it doesn't support
vfat! Again, I don't have any problem
reading my Win98 which is a vfat and
furthermore, I even able to mount my external
SCSI drive which is also a vfat that I share
with WinXP, no problem whatsoever.

Regarding kppp. I am using DSL so can't
help you there. However, if you go to
www.linux.org and click on the HOWTO section
on the left, there should be a chapter
regarding PPP.

Lawrence