Larry Sword wrote:
>
> Dale Morris wrote:
>
> > Ramon,
> > Thankyou for your concise and thoughtful reply. I have saved it for future
> > reference. I have tried the entries you suggested for my fstab file and
> > it just isn't working. I am including a copy of my fstab file in hopes
> > someone can point out what I'm doing wrong here. I am able to mount vfat
> > floppies, just can't get the ext2 working. I've tried all the
> > obvious.. Here's the fstab file, the way it came configured in Mandrake
> > 7.0:
> >
> > /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
> > /dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> > /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
> > /dev/hda7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
> > /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
> > none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> > none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
> > /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
> >
> > thanks again
> >
>
> I don't have your original message, however:
>
> >From the entries in you fstab I see that you have fd0 as supermount, vfat. This
> means that when using KDE you can simply click on the floppy icon to mount and
> read your vfat floppy. SO in order to mount an ext2 format floppy you must FIRST
> umount /mnt/floppy THEN you should be able to place an ext2 format floppy in your
> drive and mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy.
>
> Larry
I get the message: Couldn't open /dev/fd0 no such device or address
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