Re: FAT32 (was: dual-OS system)

2004-12-16 Thread CW Harris
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 04:12:35PM +, Daniel Goldsmith wrote: > On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:44:40 +, David Dorward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Daniel Goldsmith wrote: > [...] > > > o Why were the dos/win filesystem supports removed from Sarge's > > > kernels? > > > > They aren't, as far as

Re: FAT32 (was: dual-OS system)

2004-12-16 Thread Daniel Goldsmith
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:44:40 +, David Dorward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel Goldsmith wrote: > FAT32 is called vfat all though Linux world. > > mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows I'm not being deliberately obtuse here, but I tried that and I got a 'not supported' message > > o Why

Re: FAT32 (was: dual-OS system)

2004-12-16 Thread David Dorward
Daniel Goldsmith wrote: o Which module needs to be loaded? I have loaded msdos and vfat, but the system still says that the fat32 is not supported by the kernel. FAT32 is called vfat all though Linux world. mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows o Why were the dos/win filesystem supports removed from

Re: FAT32 (was: dual-OS system)

2004-12-16 Thread Sam Watkins
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 01:22:29PM +, Daniel Goldsmith wrote: > the Debian system refuses to mount the Windows FAT32 partition, although it > does recognise it. you need to load the "vfat" module: modprobe vfat I was a bit annoyed with Ubuntu, I would expect them to load the "vfat" module

Re: FAT32 (was: dual-OS system)

2004-12-16 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 13:22:29 +, Daniel Goldsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry for re-awakening this fairly dead thread, but... > > On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:30:25 +0200, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There are, as posted, other alternatives as well. Ext3 is simplest, I think

Re: FAT32 (was: dual-OS system)

2004-12-16 Thread Daniel Goldsmith
Sorry for re-awakening this fairly dead thread, but... On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:30:25 +0200, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are, as posted, other alternatives as well. Ext3 is simplest, I think. > Linux can mount NTFS read-only but has full FAT32 support. Is that the case with a de