-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hoyt Bailey Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 12:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] unable to mount/read floppy
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 In earlier version of Mandrake, there was a "floppy" group that you had to be part of in order to mount floppy disks. As of 10.0 it was still in there, so it is a good bet that it is still part of 10.1 CE. Try adding yourself to "floppy" and see if that works. Michael Viron Founder, mdklinuxfaq.org
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