mkfs.vfat on 2007.02

Johny Tenfinger seba.dos1 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 25 19:14:53 CEST 2008


On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 18:09, Mike Montour <mail at mmontour.net> wrote:
> Aaron Sowry wrote:
>
>> However the problem as it stands currently is that there doesn't seem to
>> be a package containing mkfs.vfat, or at least I can't find out what it
>> is. Anyone?
>
> It's in dosfstools. You can bitbake it yourself with OE/MokoMakefile or
> download one that I've built from
> http://members.shaw.ca/mmontour/neo/dosfstools_2.11-r0_armv4t.ipk
>
> Note that the "Booting from SD" wiki page is out of date. The newest
> u-boot images (20080723 or newer) are able to load the kernel from
> ext2/3 so you don't need a FAT partition any more.

I don't know why on wiki is ncurses package... ncurses has nothing to
do with mkfs.vfat...




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