National ISO in fstab

Sheedee sheedee at atlas.cz
Fri Jan 3 17:35:38 UTC 2003


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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