Configuring for Diskonkey
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).
When installing, I made sure to include the module for usb-storage
support. I then did:
#modprobe usb-storage
#mkdir /mnt/diskonkey
and added the following line to /etc/fstab:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/diskonkey auto noauto,user,exec,nodev,owner
0 0
However, when I try to mount the diskonkey:
#mount /mnt/diskonkey
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
When I started using the diskonkey in Yellow Dog Linux (my stable
system), it "just worked" right out of the box--complete plug&play. With
it mounted, these are the entries in:
/etc/mtab:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/diskonkey vfat rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
/etc/fstab:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/diskonkey auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
Noticing that with diskonkey mounted (under YDL) the file type in
/etc/mtab is vfat, I checked to see if I have a fs entry for vfat (under
Debian). I do not:
#cat /proc/filesystems
[No entry for vfat]
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?
Many thanks. --Harvey
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