For one, vfat let's you see long filenames in Linux.
Richard Harran wrote: > > 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 > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
