Floppy question

[Robert A. Klahn]

Try "modprobe vfat". You have to do this as root.

Bob.

On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 21:31:53 -0700
"Tom Achtenberg" <tom@ybnormal.org> wrote:

> OK,  I do not get vfat or msdos on mine.  How can I get them so I can mount
> floppy's?
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Blake Barnett" <blake.barnett@developonline.com>
> To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.mybutt.net>
> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 3:27 PM
> Subject: Re: Floppy question
> 
> 
> That's news to me:
> 
> dispari:~$ cat /proc/filesystems
> nodev   rootfs
> nodev   bdev
> nodev   proc
> nodev   sockfs
> nodev   tmpfs
> nodev   shm
> nodev   pipefs
> nodev   binfmt_misc
>         ext2
> nodev   ramfs
>         msdos
>         vfat       <-----
>         iso9660
> nodev   devfs
> nodev   nfs
> nodev   smbfs
>         ntfs
> nodev   autofs
>         reiserfs
> nodev   devpts
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 19:06, Victor Odhner wrote:
> > Blake Barnett wrote:
> > > Type:
> > > cat /proc/filesystems
> > >
> > > If you don't see 'vfat' or 'msdos' listed there, it won't
> > > be able to mount any DOS or Windows floppies.
> >
> > Seems to me (I'm in Windows right now so I can't check)
> > that vfat was one of the filesystem types that did
> > not have to be in /proc/filesystems.
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