Re: Configuring for Diskonkey

[Harvey Ussery <huboxwood@earthlink.net>]

Thanks for the tips, Rogerio. A
modprobe vfat
was apparently all that was necessary to retrieve that fs support from 
the kernel. After that, I could mount the diskonkey w no problem.

The hotplug install sounds like a good idea--I'll give that a try.

Thanks again.    --Harvey

Rogério Brito wrote:

> On Nov 30 2003, Harvey Ussery wrote:
>  
>
> > I installed DebianPPC3.0(Woody) on an 800Mhz iMac 17"LCD. I'm having 
> > trouble getting Debian to recognize a Diskonkey (a small USB data 
> > storage device).
> >    
>
> If you install hotplug, then you won't have to manually load the
> usb-storage module, since it will be automatically loaded when you plug
> your USB drive and automatically removed when you unplug it.
>
>  
>
> > How do I get Debian to recognize this usb storage device? If it is 
> > necessary to add filesystem type vfat to the system, how do I do that?
> >    
>
> You have many options here. One of them is to create a file called
> /etc/filesystems that contains the possible filesystem types that you
> want to mount.
>
> This way, whenever you have to mount a filesystem, the mount command
> will check that file to see what filesystems it can use in case there is
> an auto keyword in the /etc/fstab field that specifies the fs type.
>
> Since you seem to be using a stock kernel from Debian, the vfat module
> should be available.
>
> Read more about the process above in the mount manual page.
>
>
> []s, Roger...
>
>