On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote:
>
> Roger Oberholtzer <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed thusly on Friday, March 14,
> 2003 12:20 AM:
>
> > On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 16:46:26 -0800
> > "Net Llama!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> msdos/windoze floppies are never vfat filesystems.
> >> they're fat or msdos filesystem.
> >
> > OK. But on a certain linux distro I still use, the floppy
> > I just mounted is identified as bring vfat. It is a dos
> > boot floppy. So, I guess it depends who makes the disk.
> > But it is readable from DOS/Windows.
>
> The floppy was formatted and written on a Win2K machine.  The fstab entry
> was "auto" until that didn't work so I tried vfat.  I may have been thinking
> of my zip disks when I tried vfat.
>
> Your mind may get slippery when you get older, too, Lonnie.  Although, you
> won't have gone to college in the 60's, which no doubt contributed.  ;-}>

i wasn't even *alive* in the 60s, much less in school  :)

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Lonni J Friedman                                [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo                  http://netllama.ipfox.com
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