On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 12:07 -0500, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > On Saturday 09 October 2004 11:23, Johan wrote: > > Hi, > > Now for years I have seen people having problems with their floppy > > drive..well now it has happened to me. > > > > I have various flavours of linux on this HD..suse 9.1 - mdk 10.0 - > > ubuntu warty and no problem with floppy. > > > > Today installed mdk 10.1 CE. > > Here is the entry in fstab..looks the exact same as in mdk 10.0.. > > > > none /mnt/floppy supermount > > dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepag > >e=850 0 0 > > > > Kernel .. 2.6.8.1-10mdk > > > > Kindly please is there a issue in mdk 10.? > > Thanks > Not that I know of, I seldom use floppy (too small) but am including > my /etc/fstab FWIW: > none /mnt/floppy supermount > dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 > 0 0 > Looks a lot like yours except the fs=. ******* Thanks for your reply To me it looks the same. True floppy is small. But after install I always make myself a grub boot floppy. This saved some heart ache a lot of times. True cd 1 can be used to boot .. but floppy is easy and quick.
Johan Registered linux user #330034
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