Re: VFAT kernel considerations

[Jo Even Skarstein <joska@nuts.edu>]

On Tue, 19 May 1998, Martin-Eric Racine wrote:

>  >just that it can make things confusing at times (or destroy things if
>  >you don't know what you're doing).                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>   
> And many people (including some reading this very list) don't have
> a clue what they're doing. This occurance is likely to increase as
> people hear about the VFAT capabilities of MiNT 1.15 and decide to
> give it a try, so we might as well make the system idiot-proof, to 
> avoid floods of complains from newbies who mistakenly messed their
> boot partition. Just common sense.

Well, MagiC allows you to enable VFAT on the boot-drive, and I haven't
seen many complaints about that. And you'll find a lot more newbies
among MagiC-users than MiNT-users ;-)

I think a tool like kellis' MiNT setter is better suited to handle
this, it could easily warn users if they enable VFAT on their
boot-drive.


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