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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Alejandro Lieber wrote:

> Sindi:
>
> If this can help:
>
> I have a 133Mhz 586 with a 810Mby HD, partitioned in two,
> that boots with Ranish Partition Manager.
>
> I run BL3
> The interesting thing is that I have:
>
> a) One FAT16 partition with PC-DOS
> b) One FAT32 partition with WIN95
>
> In a) I have c:\baslin\*.* WITHOUT fs.img (too big for that partition)
> In b) I have d:\baslin\fs.img  (16Mby loop)
>
> So I loadlin in FAT16 of a loop in FAT32.

How clever.  Is /initrd/DOS c: or d:?  I am curious if BL3 can mount the 
FAT32 partition okay.

> Alejandro.
>
>
> On 20 Feb 05 at 16:59, 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
>
> > sindi keesan wrote:
> > > Steven, is it possible that my mounting FAT32 with
> > > BL2 (or BL3) could have caused the problem?
> >
> > BL2 does vfat.
> > --------------------------------------------------------
> > CONFIG_VFAT_FS   This option provides support for normal
> > Windows filesystems with long filenames. That includes
> > non-compressed FAT-based filesystems used by Windows 95,
> > Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, and mtools.
> > --------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > > I thought mount automatically detected the file
> > > system type,
> >
> > It does with some types, but not others.
> >
> > > or does it just assume msdos if it is not linux?
> >
> > No.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Steven
>
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