Re: Trouble mounting floppy with 2.4.27

[Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>]

Hello

Eric Dickner (<ejdickner@yahoo.com>) wrote:

> I didn't have any trouble mounting my floppy drive as
> file system type "auto" with 2.2.x, but since my
> upgrade "mount" insists that I provide a file system
> type.  I tried "msdos" but it tells me the kernel
> doesn't support that type.
> 
> What might be going on?

I think the msdos module is not loaded. Mount does not autoprobe for
this file system by default. It checks /proc/filesystems, and msdos is
only listed if the driver has been loaded. You can solve the problem by
either

- loading the msdos module at boot time
- copying /proc/filesystems to /etc/filesystems and adding msdos
  read the mount man page for details

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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