RE: File Type Not Supported
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. ;-} In Harmony's Way, and In A Chord, Tom :-}) Thomas A. Condon Barbershop Bass Singer Registered Linux User #154358 A Jester Unemployed ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
RE: File Type Not Supported
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 :) -- ~~ Lonni J Friedman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: File Type Not Supported
An unnamed Administration source, Condon Thomas A KPWA, wrote: [...] % 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 tried to make up for that in the 70s and 80s. With some success, I might add. K -- No problem is so formidable that you can't just walk away from it. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: File Type Not Supported
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 16:46:26 -0800 Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03/13/03 13:28, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: Folks, I think I have a demented install. I'm trying to mount a floppy drive and it keeps telling me File type not supported by kernel. VFAT?!? I thought all modern kernels supported that. Is there a simple (for the simple-minded amongst us) way to get the kernel to support extra files systems? A module I can add or whatever? 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. -- ++···+ · Roger Oberholtzer · E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]· · OPQ Systems AB · WWW: http://www.opq.se/ · · Erik Dahlbergsgatan 41-43 ·Phone: Int + 46 8 314223 · · 115 34 Stockholm · Mobile: Int + 46 733 621657 · · Sweden · Fax: Int + 46 8 302602 · ++···+ ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
File Type Not Supported
Folks, I think I have a demented install. I'm trying to mount a floppy drive and it keeps telling me File type not supported by kernel. VFAT?!? I thought all modern kernels supported that. Is there a simple (for the simple-minded amongst us) way to get the kernel to support extra files systems? A module I can add or whatever? In Harmony's Way, and In A Chord, Tom :-}) Thomas A. Condon Barbershop Bass Singer Registered Linux User #154358 A Jester Unemployed ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: File Type Not Supported
vfat support can be a kernel module. which may need to be loaded. To see what file systems your kernel supports: cat /proc/filesystems I get: nodev rootfs nodev bdev nodev proc nodev sockfs nodev tmpfs nodev shm nodev pipefs nodev binfmt_misc ext3 ext2 nodev ramfs msdos vfat iso9660 nodev devfs nodev nfs nodev autofs nodev devpts nodev usbdevfs nodev usbfs If it is not listed here, then try the next step. To see if it is a module on your system, check for an object called vfat.o: find /lib/modules -name vfat.o If you find a file called vfat.o, then it is a module and will need loading. If you don't find a module, it is either compiled in to the kernel (listed above) or not compiled at all... But, given the error message, I don't thint that is it. How are you trying to mount it? mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy would be my guess. I think the '-t vfat' can be left off. It seems to figure it out. But if it is vfat, it is never wrong to add it. If this does not sort things out, then maybe it is not a vfat disk. On UnixWare (there, I said an SCO word) there was a utility to tell what file system was on a device, even if the OS could not mount it. I don't know of one, but there could very well be one for linux. On Thursday 13 March 2003 22.28, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: Folks, I think I have a demented install. I'm trying to mount a floppy drive and it keeps telling me File type not supported by kernel. VFAT?!? I thought all modern kernels supported that. Is there a simple (for the simple-minded amongst us) way to get the kernel to support extra files systems? A module I can add or whatever? In Harmony's Way, and In A Chord, Tom :-}) Thomas A. Condon Barbershop Bass Singer Registered Linux User #154358 A Jester Unemployed ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- Roger Oberholtzer ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
RE: File Type Not Supported
Roger Oberholtzer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] typed thusly on Thursday, March 13, 2003 1:45 PM: vfat support can be a kernel module. which may need to be loaded. To see what file systems your kernel supports: cat /proc/filesystems I get: ext2 nodev proc iso9660 nodev devpts Looks pretty limited to me. If it is not listed here, then try the next step. To see if it is a module on your system, check for an object called vfat.o: find /lib/modules -name vfat.o Nothing. Hm. So it isn't compiled in, nor available as a module. That may explain why it is so braindead in filesystems (can't support a bunch of them). If you find a file called vfat.o, then it is a module and will need loading. If you don't find a module, it is either compiled in to the kernel (listed above) or not compiled at all... But, given the error message, I don't thint that is it. How are you trying to mount it? mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy Via the fstab entry (to lazy to type that much most of the time). The line read: /dev/sda /fd auto noauto,user,sync 0 0 But it couldn't determine file type so I modified it to be vfat instead of auto. That was a pretty limited list for SuSE 7.3, so I did a check to see if it had grabbed the LFS kernel by accident. Nope, different dates and times and sizes. Rats! Ah, well, rebuild is good for the soul. Thanks, Roger. In Harmony's Way, and In A Chord, Tom :-}) Thomas A. Condon Barbershop Bass Singer Registered Linux User #154358 A Jester Unemployed ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: File Type Not Supported
On 03/13/03 13:28, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: Folks, I think I have a demented install. I'm trying to mount a floppy drive and it keeps telling me File type not supported by kernel. VFAT?!? I thought all modern kernels supported that. Is there a simple (for the simple-minded amongst us) way to get the kernel to support extra files systems? A module I can add or whatever? msdos/windoze floppies are never vfat filesystems. they're fat or msdos filesystem. -- ~ L. Friedman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step TyGeMo:http://netllama.ipfox.com 4:45pm up 4 days, 17:17, 1 user, load average: 0.29, 0.20, 0.11 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: File Type Not Supported
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 16:46:26 -0800 Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03/13/03 13:28, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: Folks, I think I have a demented install. I'm trying to mount a floppy drive and it keeps telling me File type not supported by kernel. VFAT?!? I thought all modern kernels supported that. Is there a simple (for the simple-minded amongst us) way to get the kernel to support extra files systems? A module I can add or whatever? msdos/windoze floppies are never vfat filesystems. they're fat or msdos filesystem. Is it possible you are trying to mount an uninitialized or corrupted floppy? -- Collins ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
