I do not recall what the original fstab line was, but in mine (Mandrake 8.0) it is as follows:
/mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 This has worked for me. On Friday 12 July 2002 18:00, you wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Trish wrote: > > as root: nope. not at the command line, not trying every filesystem > > type mentioned in the O'Reilly book. a Mandrake friend suggested > > using "auto" as the filesystem type (auto-detect?) and that didn't > > work either. :-\ > > It sounds like you have a device problem... at that point it doesn't > matter what filesystem you try. ;) > > > yeah, i checked that too. /dev/fd0 is a symlink to a file that claims > > it's a block device when i use ls -al. however, this did remind me > > that there are about a dozen other /dev/fd's with names like 0xxxxx, > > and i guess i'll try editing the /etc/fstab entry to all of those in > > succession to find out if any of them work. > > On Mandrake, fd0 is a symlink to /dev/floppy/0. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l /dev/fd0 > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 8 Jul 12 10:54 /dev/fd0 -> > floppy/0 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l /dev/floppy/0 > brw-rw---- 1 ray floppy 2, 0 Dec 31 1969 /dev/floppy/0 > > Check the major/minor number on /dev/floppy/0 and make sure they're right. > Mine is 2, 0, and my floppy works, so i guess that's right, haha. If it's > wrong, you can try creating it with mknod. But i think /dev is under the > control of devfsd on Mandrake, so i'm not sure if it'll cause devfs any > problems. All the other /dev/fd0uxxx files may be for different floppy > densities? that's my guess. > > Editing fstab is only good for automount, which sometimes works and > sometimes doesn't, haha. It's best to call the mount/umount commands from > the command line. > > mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy > umount /mnt/floppy > > > Doug Riddle said: > > >> 2) I get a Segmentation Fault at the end of shutting down. > > > > > > Try running fsck and see if you have any issues with your drives. > > > > "issues"? maybe my drives need psychotherapy ;-) thank you, i'll try > > that (fsck, not psychotherapy). > > Psychotherapy is overrated. :) You need to find out what program is seg > faulting, then we can find out why. At what point during the shutdown > does it happen? (ie what line immediately precedes the seg fault). > > later! > Ray
