From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 Description of problem: I would be great if Anaconda would detect and mount vfat partions. This would save some energy, and would be very nice for newbies. I have a script here which I setup to do such a thing: http://pembo13.dalive.com/scripts/bash/setup-vfat.php I did it becuase FC3 marked the third time I would have had to do it manually. This would serve as a nice optional step at least. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start install FC3 2. Run and complete Anaconda 3. Boot system Actual Results: vfat partions must be manually setup Expected Results: vfat partions could be automatically setup Additional info: http://pembo13.dalive.com/scripts/bash/setup-vfat.php http://pembo13.dalive.com/scripts/bash/setup-vfat.sh
This should be being taken care of by hal.
I don't understand the comment about hal. Can you explain? Also, what are the chances of getting vfat driver update disks to be detected and used?
> I don't understand the comment about hal. Can you explain? The code in the initial post is not good since it just relies on the MSDOS partition type and thus won't work on other arches where the native partitioning format is different (think ppc) - you really need to look at each partition in detail, e.g. look for file system signatures. This is more difficult that it sounds, as e.g. various IDE RAID drives has their RAID signature in weird places so it looks like a VFAT partition when it really isn't. Mounting such a partition will work too, but result in scary data loss / corruption. However, HAL will do this for FC4 since we've just got some code to detect IDE RAID partitions. Stay tuned. > Also, what are the chances of getting vfat driver update disks to be > detected and used? I don't think this question has anything to do with this bug.
Ok thanks for clarifing. I too was curious about the hal comment. But I understand now. So is it safe to explect FC4 to auto-setup my linux readable partions?
> So is it safe to explect FC4 to auto-setup my linux readable partions? That is indeed the plan, yeah.
Many thanks in advance.
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