[CLUE-Tech] Mounting FAT32 partition as /home

[Angelo Bertolli]

> I had a similar experience on my RedHat machine. It is dual boot so I wanted 
> to share a home directory, but couldn't get Linux to play with a vfat /home. 
> It has been awhile so I don't remember the exact cause and I may never have 
> found the cause. I will tell you that one other thing that you could try 
> would be to mount the partition with your uid instead of root's. Use the uid= 
> option in your fstab.
> Can you login from a text terminal and start X from there as a user? Look at 
> the X logs and the [G,K,X]DM logs anything in there?

Do you happen to know off the top of your head where the xdm log file is? 
The interesting thing is that X created .xsession-errors but it was empty. 
I will try mounting as uid=<me> and see if it makes a difference... 
although that means I couldn't have multiple users (not that having 777 
permissions set is a great thing with multiple users).

xdm comes up fine, and I can log in as root, however when I try to log in 
as angelo, it just resets itself and then the computer hangs up! (bad)

Angelo