[arch-releng] vfat support

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Tue Dec 7 15:45:02 CET 2010


On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter at plaetinck.be> wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:13:33 +0100
> Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> Am 07.12.2010 15:03, schrieb Dieter Plaetinck:
>> > 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


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