Re: !!! URGENT !!! Can't boot back to Win95
On Fri, 22 May 1998, Brian Weiss wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, 23 May 1998, Michael Beattie wrote:
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> > On Fri, 22 May 1998, Ionut Borcoman at musa wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, I've panicked and reinstalled all Win95. Fortunately, all
> > > my personal data and files are on a different partition (sda5 and sda6)
> > > so nothing important was lost, excepting my time and yours. With this
> > > occasion I have also changed sda1 from FAT32 to VFAT as my newly 2.0.33
> > > kernel didn't recognize it. Any idea about this ? The original kernel
> > > that come with hamm had had no problem to mount that partition.
> >
> > If you downloaded it not in .deb form, the patch for FAT32 support is not
> > included... The .deb version does... I had to figure that out about 3
> > weeks ago..
> >
>
> I would really suggest not using .deb kernels. The reason they have FAT32
> support is because they are just the standard default bins. They are not
> configured to run on your system. They therefore are not very high
> performance. They usually take up way too much memory because they include
> all kinds of things you probably dont even have. It is always good to
> compile your own kernels. Try it, you'll find it makes a HUGE difference.
>
> Brian
>
What I really meant was to use the .deb kernel sources... But thats my
fault.. I didnt make that clear.
Michael Beattie (mickyb@es.co.nz)
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