i have installed redhat 8.0 on my machine with kernel 2.4.18-14.i have installed redhat on my 40GB hdd,allocating 5GB for redhat.i have 4 partitions for windows.but i am not able to mount windows FAT32 partitions(Eg "mount /dev/hda1")it says "mount:can't find /dev/hda3 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab".so i edited fstab to mount my FAT32 partition.but still i receive another message that "mount:fs type Win95 FAT32 not supported by kernel".is that line i have edited on fstab is correct?i have added one line to enable one partition as

/dev/hda7 /dev/hda7 Win95 FAT32 defaults 0 0

MY PARTITION INFORRMATION IS AS FOLLOWS:

DEVICE BOOT ID SYSTEM
/dev/hda1 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda6 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda7 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda8 83 Linux
/dev/hda9 82 Linux Swap

so what should i do to enable FAT32 support on my kernel.
.......... thank you........

Check cat /etc/proc/filesystems to see if vfat is listed. Try modprobe vfat. If you get nothing from either, you'll either need to add a vfat module to your kernel drivers in /lib/modules or rebuild a new kernel to add support for vfat filesystems.

You also have the option to try umsdos or one of the other similar yet more restrictive identifiers for the fat filesystem.

Cool

I COULD SEE THE VFAT LISTED IN /ETC/FILESYSTEM BUT I GET ANOTHER MESSAGE AS
mount:/dev/hda7 is not a directory

You maybe trying to mount the partition to a /dev directory.

Create a directory (mkdir /mnt/win95), then issue this:
mount -t vfat /dev/hda7 /mnt/win95

The above should work. Once you get it working, change your fstab file to point the partition to the correct directory on your / directory (ex. /mnt/win95). You can then access your partition from the /mnt/win95 directory.

the whole point being that linux calls fat32 vfat,
so when you use the term fat32 in linux, linux says
it doesn't have support for fat32, when actually it means
it doesn't know what you are talking about when
you say fat32. change that fstab entry to vfat

thank you mr.AnthonyM and mr whansard
.it worked perfectly.thank you very much.hat's off.