[pocket-linux] Mounting Hard Drives

[David Horton]

Dave Henderson wrote:
> Does anyone know how to mount hard drives using pocket linux.  I am 
> trying to mount a Microsoft formatted hard drive, but everytime I try it 
> gives me the error message:
>  
> kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k vfat, errno = 2
> mount: fs type vfat not supported by kernel
>  
> I looked in the /dev directory only to find that there are no hda and 
> hda1 nodes.  Even if I create them, I still get this error message.  Any 
> help would be greatly appreciated.
>  
> Thanks,
> Dave Henderson

Dave,

 From the error message it looks like Windows vfat is not supported by 
the kernel or was built as a module.  You'll have to recompile with vfat 
as a built-in option and then it should work.

Dave