Sadly, i think Trish is out of the oop until Monday, unless she gets the winmodem working. ;-<
Doug Riddle --- Mnemonic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com
