Re: FAT32 (was: dual-OS system)
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.
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