National ISO in fstab
Tim Currie
tim at algernonsystems.com
Sat Jan 3 18:30:56 UTC 2004
Sheedee wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Jan 2003 17:15:06 +0100, Sheedee <sheedee at atlas.cz> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 16:56:01 +0100, Alexander Dalloz
>> <alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Am Mi, den 28.01.2004 schrieb Sheedee um 16:10:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 14:23:49 +0100, Felipe Alfaro Solana
>>>> <felipe_alfaro at linuxmail.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 12:28, Sheedee wrote:
>>>> >> I've got a problem with /etc/fstab.
>>>> >> If I want to mount a vfat partition, only IS9660 encoding (that
>>>> for >> CD's) is available. Choosing any other ISO norm would result
>>>> in error >> message saying that the encoding is not supported in
>>>> kernel. (Which I've >> recompiled and made sure to add support for
>>>> these encodings...). Have I >> missed something? I know it's
>>>> propably just my /dev/hands ;), but still >> I have no idea where
>>>> the problem might be.
>>>> >
>>>> > ISO9660 is not an encoding, but the filesystem used on CD's, also
>>>> known
>>>> > as CDFS. UDF is also another filesystem usually found on DVD's
>>>> and CD-RW
>>>> > discs written using Incremental Packet Writing.
>>>> >
>>>> > On the other hand, ISO-8859-1 and ISO-8859-15, and UTF-8 are
>>>> encondings.
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> You know, that's good to know, but still I'd like to know, how to
>>>> fix it ;)
>>>
>>>
>>> What do you exactly want to achieve? It is not clear to me.
>>>
>>> But please first fix your system's date. Your mails arrive with date
>>> 28th January 2004.
>>>
>>> Alexander
>>>
>>>
>>
>> My FAT32 partition is encoded with ISO8859-2 charset, but Fedora
>> doesn't seem to accept that and reads it, as something different
>> (even though I specified the charset as ISO8859-2). As a result, I
>> can't read files, that have any special characters in their names.
>> I'd like to know, how to make Fedora accept central europian encoding
>> (ISO8859-2). This feature works just fine under Suse and Mandrake
>> linux. Thanx ;)
>>
>
> Well, nevermind, trying to recompile kernel (again) something went
> wrong and now the network doesn't work anymore. I'm afraid, I'll have
> to wait for next fedora, this one is just too buged.
> Thanks anyway ;)
>
>
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Now it's even worse!!! Now they're time-stamped 2003!!!
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