Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
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.
Yeah. I swear it didn't work the first time but it does now. I
converted a lot of disk space ( backwards ) to FAT32 to create my
space. Actually, I'm making my whole "/var" file system shared between
the two because I'm planning to do some cross-platform stuff and my
installation looks very *nix-y already.
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.
--
David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate
"By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a
Pilgrim: R.French, Tr.
Life is too short to tolerate crappy software!
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