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    Been trying to mount a FAT32 pen drive under Debian, on inspection of the man and help files it would appear that FAT or FAT32 are not supported??

    Now I don't know if they are just not supported or I need to upgrade something?

    Can anyone shed light on this?

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    I would have thought FAT32 would be supported - what command are you trying?
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    probably need to specify the file system..

    i.e. for me under FreeBSD

    # mount -t ntfs /dev/ad0s1 /mnt/WINDOWS

    for my ntfs drives similar thing for FAT32 I expect.

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    personally i rely on the rather lovely gnome volume manager, which mounts removable storage for you - run a 2.6 kernel, "adduser $username plugdev", then if you log into gnome (or any wm, if you run the gnome-volume-manager executable) it'll mount drives into /media for you

    how very nice of it

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    Quote Originally Posted by r1zeek
    Been trying to mount a FAT32 pen drive under Debian, on inspection of the man and help files it would appear that FAT or FAT32 are not supported??

    Now I don't know if they are just not supported or I need to upgrade something?

    Can anyone shed light on this?

    Cheers,
    you could try mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt (assuming your pendrive is attached as /dev/sda1 .

    You need to make sure that the pendrive has been 'picked up' by the OS. I use usbview to check ( apt-get install usbview hotplug).

    after it's installed type usbview and you should get a display of attached usb devices.

    Also you might not have the approriate modules loaded in the kernel:-
    ~#>modconf
    look for kernel/drivers/filesystems and make sure ntfs and fat modules have a + next to them.
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    r1zeek if I remember correctly your running Redhat AS server which I don't think comes with ntfs or fat support built into the kernel by default.

    Your other boxes are debian - which I'd check if the filesystem drivers are loaded or built in.
    It is Inevitable.....


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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt1eD
    I wish I understood linux. You're all talking a foreign language to me. Perhaps I should dual boot it and experiment.
    If you truly mean that you should maybe try a live cd distro. These run from a CD and system memory, you can unhook your hard drive(s) if your worried about them. Set your bios to boot from the CD and you can have a play without too much effort. It seems the most popular one is ubuntu ..

    http://www.ubuntulinux.org

    I recently tried beatrix too which seemed good:-

    http://watsky.net/

    There are others.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ikonia
    r1zeek if I remember correctly your running Redhat AS server which I don't think comes with ntfs or fat support built into the kernel by default.

    Your other boxes are debian - which I'd check if the filesystem drivers are loaded or built in.
    I think r1zeek quoted debian in his first post? Stock debian kernels should have ntfs and fat support.
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    sorry, he did say debian
    It is Inevitable.....


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    Quote Originally Posted by yngvai
    If you truly mean that you should maybe try a live cd distro. These run from a CD and system memory, you can unhook your hard drive(s) if your worried about them. Set your bios to boot from the CD and you can have a play without too much effort. It seems the most popular one is ubuntu ..

    http://www.ubuntulinux.org

    I recently tried beatrix too which seemed good:-

    http://watsky.net/

    There are others.
    I tried the ubuntu live CD, and it didn't work for me . I'm planning on building a new system in the summer hols, so will put Debian on my old one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt1eD
    I tried the ubuntu live CD, and it didn't work for me . I'm planning on building a new system in the summer hols, so will put Debian on my old one.
    I didn't try ubuntu so I cannot comment, beatrix worked straight away. Another point I'm sure you covered but just in case... you have to ensure the CD you burn is bootable.
    I'd recommend getting the Debian netinst.iso for your old system here:-
    http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimag.../i386/current/

    Hope it goes well!
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    cheers, yup; I'd never made a bootable CD before do I might of burnt it wrong

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    Quote Originally Posted by yngvai
    I think r1zeek quoted debian in his first post? Stock debian kernels should have ntfs and fat support.
    Yeah, that's exactly what I thought but I read the man on mount and it listed all the supported formats and FAT or FAT32 wasn't in there. I tried the mount command with fat & fat32 and I didn't get any result, just "FAT/FAT32 is not supported"

    I'm running Kernel 2.4 and I got 2.6 loaded but I don't like using it. My power management is messed up and it also messes up the laptop mouse a bit.

    I know that it is detected because if I plug it in it shows up under usb (it shows up in one of the files and gives all the details about how much voltage and all this it is supplying)

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    trying doing an lsmod and see if the filesystem driver is loaded, if not insmod it, then re-try mounting.

    Also the man page shouldn't tell you what file systems are supported as thats pretty much outside mounts control.
    It is Inevitable.....


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    Quote Originally Posted by r1zeek
    Yeah, that's exactly what I thought but I read the man on mount and it listed all the supported formats and FAT or FAT32 wasn't in there. I tried the mount command with fat & fat32 and I didn't get any result, just "FAT/FAT32 is not supported"
    Did you try

    #> mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt (assuming it's not attached to /dev/sdb/c/d etc ...)
    then
    #> df -h

    which should give a list including

    Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    /dev/sdx 0.5 0.1 0.4 10% /mnt

    if it just lists /dev/hda partitions it didn't work.

    I'm running Kernel 2.4 and I got 2.6 loaded but I don't like using it. My power management is messed up and it also messes up the laptop mouse a bit.
    modconf should help you here too, there should be an entry under /kernel/drivers/acpi

    and you can `apt-get install apmd` for power management.
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