Floppy question

[Tom Achtenberg]

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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