From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 23 00:46:44 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA02913 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 00:46:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA02908 for ; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 00:46:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.10 #1) id 103yi6-0006Nc-00; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 08:46:31 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id IAA01187; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 08:46:02 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (rasnt-1) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA19319; Sat, 23 Jan 99 08:45:59 GMT Message-Id: <36A98C1B.ECD0E28D@uk.radan.com> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 08:45:15 +0000 From: Mark Ovens X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en-GB Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Eric Hodel Cc: David Abdemoulaie , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fat32 References: <36A95125.C8B9848D@seattleu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Eric Hodel wrote: > > David Abdemoulaie wrote: > > > > I have an important question.. Does FreeBSD support FAT32 Partitions? The > > reason I'm asking is that when I try to mount a fat32 part. it doesn't > > work, but a friend of mine.. when he install's freebsd it recognizes one > > of his fat32's but I dont know if he can mount it or not. Is there some > > 3rd party thing that you know of that would allow me to mount fat32 > > drives? One more thing.. How do I get it to mount my fat16 drives at > > startup, i can do it manually but i have to do it each time i restart my > > computer. > > Yes, 2.2.6 (2.2.5?) and later can. > It was introduced in 2.2.7 not 2.2.6. From the 2.2.7 Release Notes: 1. What's new since 2.2.6 ------------------------- Kernel features: ---------------- o DPT SCSI RAID controller updated (including support for EISA cards) and is now enabled by default. o MSDOS FAT32 (Win95 long filename) support. > /etc/fstab will mount on boot > > -- > Eric Hodel > hodeleri@seattleu.edu > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. My homepage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, | mailto:marko@uk.radan.com Radan Computational Ltd | http://www.radan.com Bath, England. CAD/CAM solutions | FreeBSD - The Power To Serve for the Sheetmetal Work industry.| http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message