Hi, Michael:
No, the mount point is actually /media/floppy (see the fstab entry
below in my original message). I could edit the fstab and change it to
something more conmventional, such as /mnt/floppy, but doubt that that
would change anything.
Thanks.
Regards,
Glenn
On Monday 09 July 2001 10:13 am, you wrote:
> What is your mount point for floppy? Is it /mnt/floppy?
> If it is, try mount /mnt/floppy and see if that'll work. Then you
> should be able to view the contents:
> cd /mnt/floppy
> ls-l
>
[snip]
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> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 12:42 PM
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> Subject: Can't read floppy disk
>
[snip]
> I have the SuSE 7.2 Personal Edition boot disk created during the
> installation, in drive a:. I want to take a look at the lilo file on
> the disk. I tried to mount it (as both root and mere mortal, even
> though fstab shows it user-mountable) using the command:
>
> mount -a /media/floppy
>
[snip]
> Here's a look at its /etc/fstab entry:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>------- -----------------------------------------------
> /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>------- -----------------------------------------------
> I can't read it under Windows; it says it is an unformatted disk.
> Also, I don't understand why it was set up as read-only in fstab
> during the installation.
>
> Anyone?
>
> Regards,
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