The following procedure works for me:
1. su to root
2. Enter command: umount /mnt/floppy
3. Enter command: mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
4. Do whatever desired with the ext2 floppy.
5. To return to original setup: Enter command: umount /mnt/floppy
6. Enter command mount /mnt/floppy
7. Everything is back as it was - floppy setup to read vfat.
Jame Gibbs
On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Dennis Robertson wrote:
> OK, here are the facts as they apply to my system. With supermount
> enabled I cannot read ext2 floppies using any method suggested by the
> list, mandrakeuser.org or devised by anyone, as far as I can tell.
> With supermount disabled and using the conventional fstab entry
> suggested by Ramon: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto
> sync,user,noauto,nsuid,nodev,unhide 0 0 I used mount /mnt/floppy in a
> term and then left clicked the desktop floppy icon. Lo and behold I
> could open both vfat and ext2 floppies.
> So there's a bug in supermount, right? How do some folks manage to use
> it with ext2 floppies? Beats me. There's a bug in my system? I think
> not.
> Anyway it's very cumbersome and I don't mind using windows methods if
> they're clearly better, as they would be in the case of supermount, if
> only it worked. Roll on LM7.1.
>
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