Re: RE- floppy=thinkpad mount/umount
i have tried several versins . The only way I can get the floppy to mount/umount in rw mode is to have the entry in /etc/fstab as outlined below without noauto . and insert the floppy just after the boot starts. that way the floppy is mounted as rw . and I can umount and use mount -a to mount subsequent MSDOS floppies. THanks for your suggestions. I still cannot get to the CD and complete the install thanks, frank naranjo bi! At 07:11 PM 10/8/97 +1300, Carey Evans wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /dev/fd0 /floppy msdos defaults If i do not insert a floppy during boot, it will error out and eventually timeout the floppy, making the device READ-ONLY on subsequent mount -a . It's obvious to me now, but I suppose not really pointed out anywhere. You probably want something like: /dev/fd0/floppyvfatuser,noauto vfat means I get long filenames. user means I don't need to be root to mount it. noauto means it isn't mounted until you ask for it specifically. When you put a floppy in, type mount /floppy and type umount /floppy before you take it out. -- Carey Evans * http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ gc kernel: Warning: possible SYN flooding. Sending cookies. kernel: validated probe(17f, 17f, 11557, 5010, -1645409555) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: RE- floppy=thinkpad mount/umount
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /dev/fd0 /floppy msdos defaults If i do not insert a floppy during boot, it will error out and eventually timeout the floppy, making the device READ-ONLY on subsequent mount -a . It's obvious to me now, but I suppose not really pointed out anywhere. You probably want something like: /dev/fd0/floppy vfatuser,noauto vfat means I get long filenames. user means I don't need to be root to mount it. noauto means it isn't mounted until you ask for it specifically. When you put a floppy in, type mount /floppy and type umount /floppy before you take it out. -- Carey Evans * http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ gc kernel: Warning: possible SYN flooding. Sending cookies. kernel: validated probe(17f, 17f, 11557, 5010, -1645409555) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE- floppy=thinkpad mount/umount
Thank s Carey, the magic word is append=floppy=thinkpad in lilo.conf this works ONLY if I have in /etc/fstab /dev/fd0 /floppy msdos defaults If i do not insert a floppy during boot, it will error out and eventually timeout the floppy, making the device READ-ONLY on subsequent mount -a . If I insert a floppy just after the boot so that when it mounts the floppy it is there, it will mount it and make it Read/write. I can then : umount /dev/fd0 mount -a to replace floppies with RW privileges. Could you tell me why the filesystem /dev/fd0 is made READ-ONLY when it errors out on the boot process. It will allow me to use mount -a and access the floppy but only (ro). Is there an entry I can make in /etc/fstab ( or elsewhere ) so that the floppy may later be mounted as (RO) or (RW) , weather it is inserted during the boot process or NOT ? thanks, frank naranjo At 09:31 PM 10/7/97 +1300, Carey Evans wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Problem : The suggestion to put floppy=thinkpad into the lilo.conf did not work. My lilo.conf looks like the following. I have a non-standard CD-ROM (a Sony CDU-33A), so put the command for the non-standard floppy in the same place. boot=/dev/hda1 root=/dev/hda1 compact install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=10 message=/boot/message image=/vmlinuz label=Linux append=isp16=0x340,10,Sony cdu31a=0x340,10 read-only -- Carey Evans * http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ gc kernel: Warning: possible SYN flooding. Sending cookies. kernel: validated probe(17f, 17f, 11557, 5010, -1645409555) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
