vfat mount error

The problem is that when we first setup linux (RH 6.1) we
were able to mount Win98 with no problem.

My friend said that one day, he was unable, he has made no
changes that he knows of. I tried to mount win98 as dos
but I got a message that fs type dos not supported by kernel.

John

|-----Original Message-----
|From: shocktroop [mailto:shock@dancris.com]
|Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 9:52 PM
|To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
|Subject: RE: vfat mount error
|
|
|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?
|> >
|> > --
|> > "Intel giveth and Microsoft Taketh Away" - Gordon Moore
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