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08-03-2003, 01:17 PM
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Registered: Jul 2003
Location: California, US
Distribution: SuSE 9.3 (so slick!), WinXP
Posts: 34
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FAT32 not supported by kernel... how do I fix that??
Hey all! I am trying to mount a FAT32 hard drive partition using Red Hat 9, and when I type "mount -t fat32 -o ro /dev/hda2 /mnt/audio_media", it gives me this message: "mount: fs type fat32 not supported by kernel".
Interestingly enough, this is not the first install of Red Hat 9 that I've tried on this machine. My first install went beautifully, and I installed the GNOME desktop environment. I tried mounting this drive the exact same way and it worked great! No problems!! ...but this time I installed (after messing around and trying some other flavors of Linux) and went with the KDE and am given the above messages when I try to mount. Any suggestions????? Thanks!
-masterspud777
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08-03-2003, 01:33 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Distribution: RedHat, Fedora, CentOS, SUSE
Posts: 1,403
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In Linux, FAT32 is referred as vfat.
So, try this instead:
Code:
mount -t vfat -o ro /dev/hda2 /mnt/audio_media
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08-03-2003, 04:17 PM
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Member
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: California, US
Distribution: SuSE 9.3 (so slick!), WinXP
Posts: 34
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Thanks! It worked. Out of curiosity, how the heck did you know that???
Thanks again!
-masterspud777
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08-03-2003, 09:09 PM
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Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Jette, Brussels Hoofstedelijk Gewest
Distribution: Debian sid, RedHat 9, Suse 8.2
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To see which filesystems are supported by your kernel
$ cat /proc/filesystems
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08-03-2003, 09:21 PM
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Registered: May 2003
Location: Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
Distribution: slackware
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well if your wondering how he knew that it either got brought to his attention by someone telling him originally or if he read the manuel, or some online article...
anyways to see what mount can do, at the terminal type:
man mount
and if you scroll down to the -t argument you will see the different options
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08-03-2003, 11:28 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Distribution: RedHat, Fedora, CentOS, SUSE
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Quote:
Out of curiosity, how the heck did you know that???
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I learned it at a certain point.
I must have looked in the MAN pages or Google.
I can't remember. 
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