On Sat, 04 Mar 2000, you 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
The "fs=vfat" says:
I want this to work for vfat.
if you want to mount ext2 floppies, you can at a minimum just change
that to
"fs=ext2"
Though there's something terrily wrong if
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,user 0 0
doesn't do it for you. Of course if you use this above you do have to
"mount" it before you can use it. This is the Unix Classic approach.
I've had very little luck with supermount myself, and use this approach.
That is, to use it, you do
mount /mnt/floppy
ls /mnt/floppy
and when done (this is important!) before removing it do
umount /mnt/floppy
If that doesn't work, please copy-and-paste the precise error messages
you are getting.
| 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
|
|
| --dale
|
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