File Type Not Supported

[Net Llama!]

On 03/13/03 13:28, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I think I have a demented install.  I'm trying to mount a floppy drive and
> it keeps telling me "File type not supported by kernel".  VFAT?!?  I thought
> all modern kernels supported that.  Is there a simple (for the simple-minded
> amongst us) way to get the kernel to support extra files systems?  A module
> I can add or whatever?

msdos/windoze floppies are never vfat filesystems.  they're fat or msdos 
filesystem.

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