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Sorry if this has come up before I've had a search with no luck.
I'm trying to mount a usb stick on fc4 and it has a problem mounting I've typed 'tail -f /var/log/messages' and here is the output I get.
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Jan 7 11:02:22 shuttle_server kernel: uba: uba1
Jan 7 11:02:22 shuttle_server fstab-sync[3623]: added mount point /media/usbdisk for /dev/uba1
Jan 7 11:02:24 shuttle_server kernel: Unable to load NLS charset ascii
Jan 7 11:02:24 shuttle_server kernel: FAT: IO charset ascii not found
Jan 7 11:02:24 shuttle_server kernel: Unable to load NLS charset ascii
Jan 7 11:02:24 shuttle_server kernel: FAT: IO charset ascii not found
Yeah I got this solved eventually, it was something to do with my kernel configuration, in particular my vfat settings. I dont think anyone will have the same problem because it's a manually configured kernel
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