Mounting usb flash stick

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originally posted by sfielding+jun 23 2005, 05:49 am--><div class='quotetop'>quote (sfielding @ jun 23 2005, 05:49 am)</div>

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thanks marc, that helped.

it turned out that i also needed to add some nodes to the filesystem;

@sda,b,8,0

@sda1,b,8,1

hopefully i got this correct?[/b]

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looks right.

$ ls -al /dev/sda*
brw-rw----  1 root disk 8,  0 2002-03-14 22:51 /dev/sda
brw-rw----  1 root disk 8,  1 2002-03-14 22:51 /dev/sda1

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so, now when i mount the usb partition i get

mount -n -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb
fat: codepage cp437 not found
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
       or too many mounted file systems# 

what could cause "fat: codepage cp437 not found" ?

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This looks to my like you either did not compile vfat support in your kernel

$ cat /usr/src/linux-2.6.12/.config |grep VFAT
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=m

(or =y in case you want it compiled in instead of a module), or some NLS settings:

$ cat /usr/src/linux-2.6.12/.config |grep 437
CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE=437
CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="cp437"
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=y

but since I never actively remember setting them myself, I would assume they are set by selecting the VFAT configuration.

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originally posted by sfielding@Jun 23 2005, 05:49 AM

i believe that the formatting is correct;

disk /dev/sda: 65 mb, 65011712 bytes
2 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1024 cylinders
units = cylinders of 124 * 512 = 63488 bytes
   device boot    start       end    blocks   id  system
/dev/sda1               1        1024       63457    b  win95 fat32

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looks right, at least the default crappy formatting of USB sticks seems already cleared http://forum.niosforum.com/work2/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif