File Type Not Supported

[Condon Thomas A KPWA]

Roger Oberholtzer <mailto:roger at opq.se> typed thusly on Friday, March 14,
2003 12:20 AM:

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

The floppy was formatted and written on a Win2K machine.  The fstab entry
was "auto" until that didn't work so I tried vfat.  I may have been thinking
of my zip disks when I tried vfat.

Your mind may get slippery when you get older, too, Lonnie.  Although, you
won't have gone to college in the 60's, which no doubt contributed.  ;-}>


In Harmony's Way, and In A Chord,

Tom  :-})

Thomas A. Condon
Barbershop Bass Singer
Registered Linux User #154358
A Jester Unemployed