Floppy question

Nancy Sollars plug-discuss@lists.plug.mybutt.net
Sat, 19 Jan 2002 20:41:04 -0700


if u dont see it or if you do lsmod and vfat isnt listed ..

try modprobe vfat to manually probe it in ( hopefully you have it as a
module )..

to verify do ls /lib/modules/2.x.x/destination of filesystem modules

Nige
----- Original Message -----
From: "Victor Odhner" <vodhner@home.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.mybutt.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 7:06 PM
Subject: Re: Floppy question


> 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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