Linux, USB and Fat12... Oh My!

[jstreich]

I have a RH 8, and no floppy drive. Recently I began paying with an old Sony Clie, and it's memory stick... Now, I can get the memory stick to show up as a SCSI storage device, but.... It's fat12 (or else the Clie doesn't like it). Oddly enough, my kernel wasn't compilied with Fat12. RH's setup must have said "no floppy drive, no need."

So, how do I add fat12 support (the modules aren't found in a modprobe)? Where can I download fat12 or freefat12? Can I find a kluge using samba or would that require calls to the fat12 module?

 

[RhythmAce]

You should be able to use vfat then fat=12 as one of the mount options for it. This is explained in the man pages for "mount" under the sub heading, "Mount options for fat".

 

[jstreich]

I'll try it, but it sounds like the modules are not installed in my kernel... I'm not at home, but I'll try:
mount -t vfat -o fat=12 (...)
and see what my tail says... I expect it to do the same as using auto, and it'll probe for fat12 and freefat12 and then print a friendly "Your kernel does not support this file system type."

Anyone have a clue where source code for the modules is installed (I installed with all source, so I should have it laying arround -- just have to fin and compile the mod).