Subject: Re: ZIP Drives
From: Ed Jaeger (ed.jaeger@bgcorp.com)
Date: Sat May 06 2000 - 13:12:04 MDT
Filesystems can be modules. I use a module to mount hfs formatted ZIP
disks on Intel Linux machines. I don't compile it in b/c I don't use it
much, but it wouldn't hurt anything other than making the kernel bigger.
pac1@tiac.net wrote:
>
> pac1@tiac.net wrote:
>
> > root wrote:
> >
> > > Alright i tried it with sda4, and it seemed to work, now i set it up for
> > > msdos, put in a dos formatted zip
>
> I may have missed the point of the previous posting. If you've got it working with
> vfat but are having trouble with dos formatted disks, the problem is that the
> kernel you're using does not have support for the "dos" file system. Maybe the
> entry in /etc/fstab should be MSDOS and not dos. Try that.
>
> I'd also like to know what is necessary to add a file system to a kernel. Can
> filesystems beyond the one you use to get the kernel going be in modules or must
> they be compiled in. I think all mine are compiled in but I'm wondering.
>
> How do you add a file system to a kernel? There is an option n the .config file.
> Is there anything else needed?
>
> Here's what's in the .config for the blue G3 kernel 2.2.14 pre9 rev1
>
> Note the names:
>
> FAT
> MSDOS
> VFAT
>
> also UMSDOS which is shown as not set. What's UMSDOS? is that what your'e
> after?
>
> Inline attachment: from .config
>
> <snip>
>
> #
> # Filesystems
> #
> # CONFIG_QUOTA is not set
> CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS=y
> # CONFIG_ADFS_FS is not set
> # CONFIG_AFFS_FS is not set
> CONFIG_HFS_FS=y
> CONFIG_FAT_FS=y
> CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=y
> # CONFIG_UMSDOS_FS is not set
> CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y
> CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y
> CONFIG_JOLIET=y
> # CONFIG_MINIX_FS is not set
> # CONFIG_NTFS_FS is not set
> # CONFIG_HPFS_FS is not set
> CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
> CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS=y
> # CONFIG_QNX4FS_FS is not set
> # CONFIG_ROMFS_FS is not set
> CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
> # CONFIG_SYSV_FS is not set
> # CONFIG_UFS_FS is not set
> # CONFIG_EFS_FS is not set
>
> <snip>
-- --- Ed Jaeger"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."
-- Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi
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