What is repo 1
disable repo 4
do:
zypper ref
then
zypper up
When that’s done do this
http://tinyurl.com/yejwull
we are correcting other issues here
It’s totally unrelated, but people here don’t like the VLC repository. It is responsible for a lot of troubles with audio/video codecs under openSUSE.
You’ve got a fat16 stub there. Pop into windows and format it fat32 or even better as NTFS. (shouldn’t have to do that but it could solve it for you [maybe]:)])
All done and this is the unknown repo.
It works!!
Good:)
I would remove that repo, for what my advice is worth.
Thank you.
Do you recommend any good openSUSE repos?
For others who see this thread: what exactly fixed your problem with the flash drive?
Follow this and you will be good for multi-media
Multi-media and Restricted Format Installation Guide - openSUSE Forums
Packman has loads of other apps
Going beyond this is not a good idea for the inexperienced
The fix was moving all packages to packman. The fix for the vlc repo problems was also the fix for this.
Fascinating. @caf4926, why would that affect the sensing of vfat?
Isn’t it John.lol!
OP posted repo info for me because I asked for it.
I asked for it because OP kernel is one back than current.
Yet OP claimed sys was updated.
Resulting repo info demanded adjustments
Hence I said: “we are correcting other issues here”
I’m sure the fix was @swerdna’s: “You’ve got a fat16 stub there. Pop into windows and format it fat32”
:)
I did have it fully updated and you told me to update it many times before it started to work. Also I did not reformat the flash drive.
It’s just that earlier I asked for info here:
Cannot Mont vfat filesystem - Page 2 - openSUSE Forums
And your kernel was not the latest release, which lead me to the conclusion that you needed to update.
It’s good that it all works now. I’m as mystified that the Packman switch would solve your problem as @swerdna was.
What does uname -a give now?
Linux linux-o5h6 2.6.31.8-0.1-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2009-12-15 23:55:40 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
And that really is odd because I ran zypper ref and zypper up before coming to the forums, and have not updated since.
Well you now have a different kernel than you quote me earlier.
Perhaps you had run the update but never rebooted?
Which may also explain the strange vFAT behaviour:)
I would say yes except that I had not updated it after booting before the mounting problem.
Well, all’s well that ends well. As the saying goes.
Happy I could help;)
Well had the same problem. I noticed I could mount vfat drives in Root. So I adjusted my users so that the system would let me mount the vfat sticks. I wish I could say which one it was. I cheated by setting almost all the access options. I know that was not the best way. But it worked.