vfat mount error

Thanks, I will ask him.

John

|-----Original Message-----
|From: Joseph T. Tannenbaum [mailto:tannenba@access1.com]
|Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 9:09 AM
|To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
|Subject: RE: vfat mount error
|
|
|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/
|
|
|> -----Original Message-----
|> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
|> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf
|> Of Gorman,
|> John
|> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 8:26 AM
|> To: 'plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us'
|> Subject: vfat mount error
|>
|>
|> 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?
|>
|> Thanks
|>
|> John Gorman
|>
|>
|>
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