[Sussex] Mounting floppy with vfat

[Gavin Stevens]

Hi Steve,
Thanks for the info. I checked everything through & it looked fine apart 
from the fat module not being in /etc/modules; vfat was already there.

I tried a fresh, pre-formatted (DOS, I presume) floppy, mounted the drive & 
saved the files I needed. They loaded perfectly into my partner's Win98 
machine. I didn't add "-t vfat" when I mounted the floppy as it was still 
moaning about "only root can do that". Whatever, mission accomplished & 
many thanks for your help.

Gavin.


On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 06:00:46 +0000, <steve at dobson.org> wrote:

> I think you need to load the vfat kernel module.
>
> Do the following:
> # lsmod
> and look for the vfat [& fat] modules.
>
> If you don't see any then use the command
> # modprobe vfat
> which will load vfat and any modules that it requires.
>
> I assume that your fstab looks something like this:
> /dev/fd0 /floppy auto user,noauto 0 0
>
> If you want to automatically load the [v]fat modules at boot time then
> edit the /etc/modules and add a line with the text "vfat" on it.
>
> Let us know how you got on.
>
> Steve
>
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