Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 87782
Confusing reference to vFAT
Last modified: 2014-08-04 18:23:43 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.7 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20030131 Description of problem: rhl-ig-x86(EN)-9-HTML-RHI (2003-01-16T18:24-0400) In Appendix G, the second note discusses proper formatting of Windows 2000/XP partitions so they can be read properly by Red Hat Linux. It references the partition type as "VFAT," which, although well-known to Linux aficionados, is not a term used during Windows installation. This term should be changed in the manual to "FAT32," and a note made about its relation to the Linux vfat fstype, to prevent confusion. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rhl-ig-x86-en-9-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Attach newbie to manual. 2. Direct to Appendix G. Actual Results: Observed furrowed brow. :-) Expected Results: True enlightenment should be achieved. Additional info:
It should be noted that "FAT" might be a better term to use, since Windows NT 4.0 does not support FAT32. Certainly the manual shouldn't get into a dissertation on FAT, but "VFAT" might make beginners think they are missing something.
The glossary might be an additional place to put this information, but probably not helpful to first-time installers who are not used to dependencies in documentation.
Thanks, this will be fixed in the next version of Red Hat Linux. Thanks again for the feedback. Cheers!