Ok....how do I config my Kernel? I need some newbie-ish help. Thanks!

Floppies will always be -t msdos since they are FAT12.

Do you have a default config in /boot that correspond to your kernel ?

Floppies will always be -t msdos since they are FAT12.

That's what I thought. But I copied a file unto a floppy drom XP, and it mount as a vfat floppy.

Ok, now I feel like we may be making progress. In my /boot directory I have 2 config files. One is "config" and the other was "config-ide-2.4.26" Which one do I modify? Here is the relevant info from these files. What do I need to modify and how? Thanks!

config
# Native Language Support
#
CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="cp437"
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=y
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_737=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_775=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_850=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_852=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_855=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_857=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_860=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_861=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_862=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_863=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_864=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_865=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_866=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_869=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_936=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_950=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_932=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_949=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_874=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_8=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_1250=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_1251=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=y
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_2=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_3=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_4=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_5=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_6=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_7=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_9=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_13=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_14=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_15=m
CONFIG_NLS_KOI8_R=m
CONFIG_NLS_KOI8_U=m
CONFIG_NLS_UTF8=m

config-ide-2.4.26
# Native Language Support
#
CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="cp437"
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=y
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_737=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_775=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_850=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_852=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_855=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_857=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_860=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_861=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_862=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_863=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_864=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_865=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_866=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_869=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_936=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_950=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_932=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_949=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_874=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_8=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_1250=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_1251=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=y
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_2=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_3=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_4=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_5=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_6=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_7=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_9=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_13=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_14=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_15=m
CONFIG_NLS_KOI8_R=m
CONFIG_NLS_KOI8_U=m
CONFIG_NLS_UTF8=m

Nope. Sorry.

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the "micros~1" joke. They caused this fiasco after all.

tubatodd>
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Now I check your config and it seems that these features are already enabled no need
to recompile the kernel

Now what? I'm not having any problems reading or writing to the floppy drive, however, ALL of my files end up with truncated names. What makes this even more annoying is that when I connect my memory stick it mounts as msfat as well.

Before moving to Slack, I used Fedora and Redhat for a while. I never had a problem then. I wonder what settings I had on my machine back then.

Try removing the msdos from /etc/filesystems and see what happens.

**UPDATE**

Well, I have my floppy drive working.....sorta. I tried putting "nodev" in front of "msdos" in /etc/filesystems (which is suppose to bypass the msdos line) and my floppy disk still mounted as msdos. I'm not sure how that is possible. In any event, I decided to modify my fstab to force my floppy as vfat, which worked. Unfortunately, if I had an ext2 formatted floppy, it would not work. This is why I wanted the auto option.....not that I ever formatted a floppy ast ext2. Hee hee. In any event, it appears to be working again. I would LOVE to see what a Fedora/Redhat fstab looks like. I never had this problem with those distros. That being said....once you go Slack...you never go back.