File Type Not Supported

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 16:46:26 -0800
"Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> 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.

OK. But on a certain linux distro I still use, the floppy I just mounted is
identified as bring vfat. It is a dos boot floppy. So, I guess it depends
who makes the disk. But it is readable from DOS/Windows.

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