[ale] mount

[Robert L Harris]

> 
> On 26 Jul, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> > Ok,
> >   I'm making progress but now when I try to manually
> > mount a filesystem mount core dumps on me.  I'm trying to
> > find the latest version of mount.  Anyone think I'm on the
> > wrong path?  I just upgraded from kernel 2.0.30 to 2.1.46...
> 
> What type of filesystem are you trying to mount?  Have you tried with
> 2.1.47 (46 is pretty buggy regarding filesystems, not that 47 is
> perfect)?  How about a more stable 2.1.x (the filesystem code in the
> current 2.1.x releases is being heavily re-done, so lots of stuff is
> currently broken)?
> 
> As for mount, the Documentation/Changes file recommends at least 2.6g,
> which is available from 
> ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux/util/mount-2.6g.tar.gz .  I believe
> 2.7a's out now, but AFAIK 2.6g will work for everything, so I haven't
> updated that part of Changes.
> 

I'm trying to mount vfat filesystems.  I'll try 2.1.47 tonight.  It
wasn't out the other day...

Thanks


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