What does compiling vfat support into your kernel do for you? I only ask because I don't have it, but I do mount my Windows95 drives under linux, and I seem to be able to use them ok (except for permissions, which I suppose don't exist on them) cheers Rich
Alan Tam wrote: > > Hi, > > The kernel comes with Debian was not configured with vfat support. > During > boot time mount is processed before kerneld, therefore you can't mount vfat > file > systems before kerneld is processed. After login (before login, kerneld is > processed) then you can mount the vfats. > > To have the vfat support at boot time compile your kernel with > answers to make > config (or make menuconfig | make xconfig) as follows: > fat fs support y > msdos fs support y > vfat fs support y > nls codepage 437 m > nls iso8859-1 m > > Cheers. > > Alan > Jelmar Andree wrote: > > > hello, > > when booting I get the message vfat not supported by the kernel. > > when I'm logged in and do as root mount /dosc there is no problem. > > I've ofcourse in my fstab mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /dosc ....etc. > > how is that possible and what to change so by booting the > > windows-partities will be mounted? > > > > Jelmar > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
