Re: how to load a module for vfat fs support?
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 02:23:39PM -0500, Gale Stafford wrote:
> I'm trying to mount a floppy disk with a vfat filesystem. But it seems my kernel doesn't handle vfat at this point. I thought I enabled vfat support as a loadable module before compiling the kernel, but it seems I goofed.
>
> If I want to load a module to the kernel dynamically, from what I understand, I just use
>
> insmod [module_name]
>
> And assuming the module is in my /lib/modules/2.4.10 directory, the kernel should load the module. Right?
>
Not quite. Were you to load it as a module, you would use 'modprobe vfat'
with insmod, you have to specify the location of the module.
However, you shouldn't need to do this at all. 'mount -t vfat /dev/fd0
/floppy' should do it all for you.
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