If Brian's suggestion works for you, I suggest adding an icon to the desktop
to save yourself from manually mounting the floppy each time.
HTH,
Matt
>From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [expert] Problem Mounting Floppy Disk
>Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 00:10:05 -0500
>
>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
>|
>| "my mind is scheduled to clear tomorrow, then not again for another 400
>years."
>--
>I am "Brian, the man from babble-on" (Brian T. Schellenberger).
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