[olug] FAT, FAT23, VFAT mount in linux

[Brian Wiese]

On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 18:35:55 -0400 (EDT)
"02fun-u2" <02fun-u2 at excite.com> wrote:

|i am trying to get to a fat formatted section on an old drive, i am using
|suse 9 that i got at the last installfest, i created a mount point and
|added it to the fstab, i get an error message stating that the kernel
|does not have fat support. does any one have a good reference on setting
|up fat, vfat support and how to tell if it is installed in the kernel.

try a # modprobe vfat
?

# mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/point
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