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
