Have you tried specifying vfat in your mount command?
What I tried to say (below) was that I don't have it
in my /proc/filesystems file but my kernel still knows
about it, at least for hard disks.  (This is true either
of vfat, or of whatever Windows filesystem type supports
long file names.)

If it doesn't work with your mount command, then
you may have to build it into your kernel and I don't
know how that's done offhand.

Vic

Tom Achtenberg 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.
> > ________________________________________________