Bug 57125 – mounting vfat partition not possible => modprobe vfat fails (using live cd) (installation process) (handbook chapter 4d)

• Product: Gentoo Release Media
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Attila Stehr 2004-07-14 23:04:53 UTC]

After making a vfat (fat32) partition using parted mounting fails.

INPUT:   mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/gentoo/var
RESULT:  vfat not supported by kernel

INPUT:   modprobe vfat
RESULT:  14 error messages: .../lib/... vfat.o ... unresolved symbol fat_FOO

Reproducible: Didn't try
Steps to Reproduce:
see above
Actual Results:  
see above

Expected Results:  
'modprobe vfat' should work

simple solution:

modprobe fat
modprobe msdos
modprobe vfat

and here we go mounting vfat partitions :)

[Comment 1 Xavier Neys (RETIRED) 2004-07-15 02:54:47 UTC]

And why would you install Linux in a vfat partition?

vfat is indeed not supported on the liveCD.
Besides, the handbook never told you to create such a partition.

[Comment 2 Attila Stehr 2004-07-15 15:28:56 UTC]

> And why would you install Linux in a vfat partition?
> Besides, the handbook never told you to create such a partition.

1)
Well, gentoo-people say, that I'm free to do everything I want to, dont't you?
I did nowhere found a hint according my intention ->

2)
I didn't say I want to install gentoo to a vfat partition, but
I do want to have a vfat-partition that's mounted to /home ... maybe I want to be easily able to exchange disks ... tear out of a pc using linux and put in to a pc using windows... for whatever (e.g. transporting 160 GB to sb. else having no direct T3-network connection, etc.).

Shouldn't I be able to do that during installation process?!

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Imho you should at least mention which way other - maybe existing - partitions/drives having "non-linux-standard" file systems can be mounted during installation!

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2004-07-15 15:47:05 UTC]

you neglected to mention *what* livecd this was with

[Comment 4 Attila Stehr 2004-07-19 14:41:30 UTC]

I'm using "Gentoo Linux 2004.0 - LifeCD"
start options are: "gentoo doscsi dokeymap nousb nodhcp"

[Comment 5 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-07-19 17:55:25 UTC]

We've had vfat support on the 2004.1 and 2004.2 releases.... oops... I mean 2004.2 test releases.... but 2004.2 proper is going to be released in 2 weeks... and this is fixed in that release, so I'm marking this one as RESOLVED-FIXED.