First, I thank everybody in the list. I read all messages in the list, everyday. I am a newbie to Linux, and I appreciate any kind of support. I have a lot of problems to begin with, but let me start from one that seems to be the biggest of all. I use Conectiva Linux, a version of Red Hat (6.0 I think) modified to support the Portuguese language and its accents. The kernel is 2.2.12-5cl. My machine is a Pentium 3, 500 Mhz, with two IDE hardisks. I have Windows 98 on a 6.4Gb drive (hda1) A 12.2 Gb harddisk is used with a Win98 partition (hdb1 - 10Gb) and a Linux ext2 partition (hdb5) with its swap partition (hdb6), both taking 2.2 Gb. I installed Winlinux, Caldera, Mandrake but could not use them with my system because of my video board (Riva TNT 2). Finally this Conectiva version worked. All was working fine. I managed to install my Sound Blaster Live!, played MP3, listened to CDs, installed StarOffice, Word Perfect, etc I was able to mount my vfat partitions, with the following commands: cd /mnt mkdir win1 mkdir win2 mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/win1 mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win2 I included these devices in the fstab file, as vfat partitions, of course. And suddenly they stopped working. This morning, I could access them, and now all I get is: fs vfat not supported by kernel Why? It was supported this morning! Maybe I needed to unmount them before halting the system? What happened? I turned off the computer, and I am sure everything was fine. I am using Windows to write this message, so its partitions are working, of course. What do I need to do, in order to be able to use them again? It is not the first time this happens. I had to install everything from scratch two days ago because of this problem, and after that I could access the Win98 partitions again. But now... I boot from a floppy with Lilo, because I didn't want to boot from hda1. If anybody has an idea, please let me know. Thanks in advance. Oto Pintiaski (OHPC)
