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["Sheldon Isaac" <SheldonIsaac AT MyRealBox.com>]

> > After I got to a BL3 prompt, I did   df  , and it showed my C: drive as 
> > /DOS Midnight Commander saw it fine.
> >
> > fdisk   /dev/hda   showed the first partition as a Win95 FAT32, if I
> > recall correctly.
> >
> 
> So it looks like Bl3 was able to mount your FAT32 partition

Also, I have an executable script     dos    which does three

mount -t msdos /dev/hdxn /mountpoint

commands 

for 3 additional FAT32 partitions.

> even though the kernel is compiled without vfat, and so they are not the
> same thing. 

Umm, dunno.
 
> Can you read long file names in the FAT32 partition?

Will save message and go look.
....

No, in BL3,  the filename looks like  SetupW~1.dll for the file that 
MS-Windows calls
 SetupWUSB54Gv2_US.dll

> What is linux using vfat for in BL2?

Utterly ignorant - hopefully someone else will know.

Sheldon