On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:

On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:13:33 +0100 Thomas Bächler wrote:

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Am 07.12.2010 15:03, schrieb Dieter Plaetinck:

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On the other hand, I just noticed dosfstools is in extra, whereas aif allows you to install on vfat.  This confuses me.

Me too. You definitely can't install on vfat. You can try, but you will fail.

interesting. why will it fail? hasn't our installer always had vfat support? time to remove that?

/boot can be vfat. With everything else though, you are going to have all sorts of permission/ownership problems. -Dan

On Tue, 7 Dec 2010 15:24:39 +0100 Dieter Plaetinck wrote:

On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:13:33 +0100 Thomas Bächler wrote:

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Am 07.12.2010 15:03, schrieb Dieter Plaetinck:

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On the other hand, I just noticed dosfstools is in extra, whereas aif allows you to install on vfat. This confuses me.

Me too. You definitely can't install on vfat. You can try, but you will fail.

interesting. why will it fail? hasn't our installer always had vfat support? time to remove that?

Dieter

I also don't see any real sense for that, vfat is most commonly used for small mediums that need to be read by a large number of different machines and operating systems. So having a working installation is the prerequisite when a USB-Stick, SDCards or something similar has to be formatted. After all it still can be mounted and read without the package installed. -- Jabber: atsutane@freethoughts.de Blog: http://atsutane.freethoughts.de/ Key: 295AFBF4 FP: 39F8 80E5 0E49 A4D1 1341 E8F9 39E4 F17F 295A FBF4