Hi,
Please read my comments, beginning with [Thomas].
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Andreas J. Guelzow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 08:24:05 -0700
>Ed Kasky wrote:
> I can't figure out why I can't access floppy drive in LM8 install.
> In Konqueror the floppy icon has a lock on it even when logged in as
> root.
>
> # cd /mnt/floppy results in the following:
> bash: cd: /mnt/floppy: input/output error
the floppy is probably not mounted
[Thomas]: That's not quite true. An I/O error usually indicates that there is a fault
with the disk itself.
>
>
> permissions for /mnt/floppy:
> drwxrwxrwx 1 root root
>
> from fstab:
> /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=dev/fd0 0 0
>
> I get the same results with
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=dev/fd0 0 0
Does your floppy in fact have the vfat filesystem, otherwise supermount
will not mount i, and then the cd will fail. Especially if yo use ext2
on your floppy...
[Thomas]: What are your major/minor numbers, for the "/dev/fd0" file?? This can be
found, by typing in the following:
ls -l /dev/fd0
You'll find the last two numbers in the list are the ones you want. You can try
swapping those for the 0 0 at the end of the line in "/etc/fstab".
Then save the fstab file, and issue the command (making sure the floppy disk is in the
drive:
mount -a
Does that work???
Let me know how you get on!!
Kind Regards,
Thomas Adam
>
> I checked the ardware and it works fine booting - I just can't access
> it from the linux desktop or a console before loading x....
Andreas
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