On 24 Jul 1999, Don Whitman wrote:
> "Thomas J. Hamman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 24-Jul-99 Don Whitman wrote:
> > It would only let me type that command as root. But it did mount the
> floppy.
> > There has got to be a better way to work with a floppy.
> > Don
> >
>
> Well, it's not normal behavior (it only gave me that problem on one occasion
> and has been fine since). I don't know what caused it or what I did to fix
> it,
> so all I can suggest is trying to tweak the fstab settings for the drive,
> which
> is easy to do in Linuxconf.
>
> Run linuxconf as root, go to 'File systems', then 'Access local drive', and
> then
> you will see a list of drives you have mount points set for. Go into the
> settings for /dev/fd0, make sure it has 'auto' set for the type, and make
> sure
> the 'User mountable' option is checked under the Options tab.
>
>
> -Tom
>
> I went to linuxconf and everything was set to the above options. Does it
> matter that there is nothing on the disk it is just formatted to the ext2 file
> system? So this sounds like something I might need some customer support from
> mandrake about. How do you save stuff to a floppy? Does it have to be mounted
> first? Could I save something to it then try to mount? Or did something go
> terribly wrong at install time?
>
> Thanks for your help Tom
> Don
>
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Ok so i haven't slept still, you'll need to modify fstab the unhide
option and ext2 don't get along.
