On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 09:43, Ralph F. De Witt wrote: > On Friday 14 March 2003 12:39 am, jardous wrote: > > is fat module loaded? If you use only fat filesystem on your > > discettes, change the auto parameter to msdos in your /etc/fstab > Jardous: > Must not be installed in the kernel because I now get error after changing > auto to msdos; Could not mount device, The reported error was: mount: fs type > msdos not supported by kernel. Being that this is the first kernel that I > have ever compiled I do not think I have done too bad the system does run. > Looks like I will have to find the how to recompile the kernel guide in the > massive amount of paper I printed out to cover the install. I think I will do > this late tommorrow or early saturday. Any words of further wisdom as to what > options to enable? Thanks for your kind help.
If these are your first kernel compiles, I suggest you to 'make xconfig' to use the graphical configuration tool. Under 'File Systems' compile 'DOS FAT fs support', 'MSDOS fs support' and, if you want to access FAT partitions with long filenames, 'VFAT (Windows-95) support'. You can compile them as modules if you want. If you want to compile them as modules you can activate them with 'modprobe module_name' (ex: modprobe fat.o) and if you want them to be loaded automatically at boot just add them in /etc/modules.autoconf These are the filesystems supported by my kernel compiled: ext2 ext3 iso9660 with JOLIET extensions /proc (required by Gentoo) /dev (required by Gentoo) /dev/pts (I don't remember why I compiled this, sorry) inserted as modules: fat vfat msdos ntfs (read only) udf (read only) (this is the fs used by Roxio DirectCD, for instance) -- Arturo di Gioia web: http://www.ing.unitn.it/~digioia/ PGP public key: http://www.ing.unitn.it/~digioia/files/adg_gpg_pub.asc Registered Linux user #230853 (http://counter.li.org). Instructions for using my e-mail address: http://netiquette.info/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
