On 10-Aug-99 Michael Chopek wrote:
> Is it just me???...or is there a major lag (4-12 hours) in the mail and how
> it is sent?
Hmmm there's a little lag on my messages, which I'd expect from a mailing
list... it's definitely not 4+ hours though.
> Now tho when I try to "mount" the floppy..
> I get an error something like.."you must specify the file type"
>
> I tried throwing various flags at it...but none seemed to work.
>
> mount -a -rw -t vfstype ext2
>
> mount -t vfstype ext2
>
> ...etc....does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
You'd use -t ext2 for a Linux filesystem and -t vfat for a DOS/Windows
filesystem, or if you use -t auto the mount command will figure it out on its
own. e.g.
mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
-Tom
