Was support for the fs compiled into your kernel or loaded as a module? 
What distro did you use? If you  >ls /proc/modules , is there a fat or 
vfat? What about >modprobe vfat, then trying to mount /dev/hda1? And, yes, 
LINUX can definately see FAT32...........

At 05:48 PM 3/9/00 -0700, you wrote:
>fat32 is NOT vfat.  There IS a fat32 option for mounting drives
>I believe.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> > [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Kevin
> > Brown
> > Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 4:35 PM
> > To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> > Subject: Re: vfat mount error
> >
> >
> > I have linux on my laptop dual booting with Win95b on a Fat32
> > partition.  I can
> > read and write to the FAT32 partition from LINUX, so I don't
> > think that is the
> > problem, linux can see FAT32.
> >
> > > Did your friend convert the drive to fat32?  That will
> > > render it unseeable.
> > >
> > > Joseph T. Tannenbaum, MCSE, MCP+I
> > > tannenba@access1.com
> > > http://members.access1.net/tannenba/
> >
> > > > I talked my friend, who is a big Windows fan, to trying linux.
> > > >
> > > > He has 2 drives, and he has linux on hdc1 and win98 on hda1.
> > > >
> > > > When we set the box up, I mounted hda1 so he could get to his
> > > > windows files from linux.
> > > >
> > > > Now when ever he tries to mount hda1 with type vfat he gets
> > > > a message:
> > > >
> > > > $ mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/cdrive
> > > >
> > > > mount: fs type vfat not supported by kernel
> > > >
> > > > He said is was working and then all of a sudden this started
> > > > to happen. No rebuild has been done.
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone have any idea what is causing this and how to fix it?
> >
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