Re: RedHat and (Uggghhhh) Fat32

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From: David Robley
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:00

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In article <64j6ga$3lv$1@nargun.cc.uq.edu.au>, Mark Eaton (aka 
hettar@mailbox.uq.edu.au) wrote...
>
>I am using the Redhat 4.2 and need to be able to read a drive which is
>formatted with the fat32 file system.

>How do I get it to recognise this file system??

>On the machine running Slackware i can read the drive fine, but When I try
>to mount it under RedHat it spacks
>and tells me that it is an invalid file system.

>This is driving me nuts....... So any help would be appreciated.

>Under Slackware the drive mounts easily with
>mount -t vfat /dev/hd1 /dos
>but it doesn't work with REdhat. Am I doing something wrong or is it
>different options with Redhat ??


Does the RedHat version support vfat? At least with Slackware I think you need 
a kernel in the 2.n range - and of course the kernel needs to be compiled with 
vfat support.



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