On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 01:22:29PM +0000, 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 by default so people can use windows floppies - but no! they don't. > 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. That's weird. you don't need msdos, just vfat > o Why were the dos/win filesystem supports removed from Sarge's > kernels? As many first time users would want to keep their Windows > stuff accessible, this would appear to me to be a red-line issue for > many fresh adopters of Debian. Surely it hasn't been??? If you can "modprobe vfat" and it loads, then your kernel has fat32 support. I don't know why it wouldn't work if you've got the module loaded. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
