Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> 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
> >
> > 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
> >
> > 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....
> >
> > Thanks in advance if anyone can shed some light on this
> > for me...
> >
> > Ed
> > ~~
> >
> >
> > Ed Kasky
> > Los Angeles, CA
> > . . . . . . . .
> > What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you
> > say. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher
> > (1803-1882)
>
> Ed....both of your /etc/fstab lines have errors in
> them. Pardon me if they're just typos:
>
> /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=dev/fd0 0 0
> should be (leading / missing in dev=)
> /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
>
> and this one is not a supermount fstab line unless it's
> exactly like the one above, so I've fixed it to disable
> supermount as an example.
>
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=dev/fd0 0 0
> should be
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat defaults 0 0
Ed....I forgot to mention that any time you make a change to
a supermounted device in the /etc/fstab file, supermount
needs a reboot to recognise it.
--
Alan
