Re: file system vfat

[Alan Tam <alantam@usa.net>]

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 debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null