New Plugger How To

[mail4asim]

According to the "New Plugger How To" document

Edit /etc/rc.local. The two insmod commands fail, and because the shell is invoked with the -e flag (see first line of the file), a failing command causes the whole script to exit. Delete or comment out all lines except "mkdir -p /var/cache/apt/archives/partial". You might also want to add, after the mkdir, a line "/usr/sbin/ntpdate-debian" to automatically sync your clock over the network.

When I do this, I end up commenting the
insmod /boot/fat.ko
insmod /boot/vfat.ko

which means I loose the FAT/FAT32  support.  Isn't that right ?

[tinker]

no, because you can always load the modules later using modprobe.

[mail4asim]

Well then I need to figure out what I am doing wrong. I reinstalled the Ubuntu / Debian 1.2 image on mine, and now when I comment out the insmod lines, I am unable to mount the FAT32 USB  drive and SD card. Another issue I am having is that I have added the mount points to /etc/fstab and they don't mount automatically, I have to do it manually.

Thanks for the input.

[mail4asim]

Ok, I reimaged the plugcomputer. It booted up  fine.

did a  apt-get dist-upgrade

 I was able created a mount point /media/USB.  Mounted by USB drive as

mount /dev/sda1  /media/USB   -t vfat


I also added the entry  to fstab  so it mounts automatically. And this worked until I rebooted again. And now I don't have vfat support. when I try to mount it says

root@debian:~# mount /dev/sda1 /media/USB
mount: unknown filesystem type 'vfat'


I rebooted again and looked at the console .. and this is what I keep seeing..



 Mounting local filesystems...                                                mount: unknown filesystem type 'vfat'
                                                                         [fail]


Did the dist-upgrade break something ?  How can I fix this ?

[dattaway]

That means your vfat module is not loaded when it tries to mount.  I believe you can simply put the name of the module you want loaded into "/etc/modules" or put the modprobe in your rc.local.