Re: file system vfat

[Jelmar Andree <jelmar@xs4all.nl>]

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

thanks

Jelmar