Ok, I installed the 2.6.6 kernel and now have vfat working! I can
read the fat32 partition but... I suspect the previous error messages
held some merit because when I do "ls /mnt/win" I see a ton of weird
characters (mostly question marks) but I can also see my directory
structure. Once I change into one of these dirs, the garbage goes
away. I guess I should probably submit a bug report.

yeah!
julia


Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de> wrote in message news:<6qnhn1-hn6.ln1@news.heiming.de>...
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> In comp.os.linux.setup Julia Goolia <juliagoolia301@hotmail.com> suggested:
> > Hi,
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> > I can read a fat32 drive from windows just fine, but when I try to
> > mount it via a linux 2.4 kernel with vfat compiled in it complains.
> > Since, I know its the RIGHT fs type (because I can read it in windows
> > and it is reported as fat32), it must be this bad superblock thingy.
> > Is there other way to test and/or fix this?
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> Try out a distro kernel, the problem might be related to your
> self compiled kernel.
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