Re: [suse-sparc] /floppy

From: Joshua Uziel (uzi@suse.com)
Date: Sat Dec 02 2000 - 16:03:59 PST

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Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 16:03:59 -0800
From: Joshua Uziel <uzi@suse.com>
Message-ID: <20001202160359.G594@gimp.org>
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] /floppy

* Ian Donaldson <ian@dsd-tech.co.uk> [001202 16:00]:
> Sparc5 (running a freshly installed copy of SuSE 7 of course) cannot
> mount the floppy. I keep getting the following error messages :-
>
> "/dev/fd0 has wrong major or minor number" with command "mount /floppy"
> I also get the above error when I try to mount it using vfat
>
> "fs type dos not supported by kernel" with command "mount -t dos /dev/fd0
> /floppy" I also get the above error when I try to mount it using fat
>
> Does the default kernel not support windows formated floppy's at all.

Nope... this is a known problem... just rebuild a kernel with it
enabled and it'll work...

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