On 2004-07-15, David A. Cobb penned: [snip]
I don't have the brain power right now to answer your question about kernels ... so moving on ... > I need to pass things back-and-forth between Linux and Windoze. I > see references to VFAT FS on the web site, but for the life of me, > I can't find a trace of the software. It's really bad to have to > play games with tar at both sides of the route in order not to > munge up the "magic" pathnames. PLEASE don't tell me that the > evil beast of Redmond has buried VFAT under a patent claim!! If > not, please, where can I find it? Vfat support isn't provided as an application; it's a capability you need to have enabled in the kernel. I would think the kernel image you have would include that support by default. What are the relevant /etc/fstab lines and 'mount' commands you've tried to use? For example, I have this in my /etc/fstab : /dev/sda1 /cigar vfat defaults,user,noauto 0 0 It allows me to mount my usb keychain drive, formatted as vfat, onto my linux system. Then I just type mount /cigar and I have access to the drive. > Right now, I've managed to hork up my package data so dpkg gets > hung up trying to fix things. My best bet seems to be to restart > from scratch. How do I get dpkg / apt / aptitude to clean my > machine totally, or what files should I remove to make all this > stuff go away? Or, would it really be quicker to re-init my > partitions and start again from the CD? Hard to answer without you pasting some example of your horkage. -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
