Re: mounting the /floppy fails

2004-08-20 Thread Loki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, messmate wrote: on my debian sarge can't mount /floppy as user nor root :( It's probably your kernel. The fstab output: /dev/fd0 /floppy autousers,noauto0 0 Looks like my fstab. /dev/fd0

mounting the /floppy fails

2004-08-19 Thread messmate
Hello, on my debian sarge can't mount /floppy as user nor root :( The fstab output: /dev/fd0/floppy autousers,noauto0 0 sudo mount /dev/fd0 /floppy mount: you must specify the filesystem type Changing for ex. auto to fstab don't help. Any help would be very

Re: mounting the /floppy fails

2004-08-19 Thread Luis Fernando Llana Díaz
El Jueves, 19 de Agosto de 2004 15:38, messmate escribió: Hello, on my debian sarge can't mount /floppy as user nor root :( The fstab output: /dev/fd0 /floppy autousers,noauto0 0 sudo mount /dev/fd0 /floppy mount: you must specify the filesystem type Is the

Re: mounting the /floppy fails

2004-08-19 Thread messmate
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 16:06:41 +0200 Luis Fernando Llana Díaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El Jueves, 19 de Agosto de 2004 15:38, messmate escribió: Hello, on my debian sarge can't mount /floppy as user nor root :( The fstab output: /dev/fd0 /floppy autousers,noauto0 0

Re: mounting the /floppy fails

2004-08-19 Thread Stefan O'Rear
sudo mount /dev/fd0 /floppy Just do: mount /floppy mount is suid root, so sudo is unnecessary, and if you use 2 or more args, mount _completely ignores_ the fstab. Mount DOES check permissions, so if you want to do something nonstandard, say: sudo mount -t fat -o uid=42 /dev/fd0 /floppy --

Re: mounting the /floppy fails

2004-08-19 Thread messmate
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 07:34:55 -0700 Stefan O'Rear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sudo mount /dev/fd0 /floppy Just do: mount /floppy mount is suid root, so sudo is unnecessary, and if you use 2 or more args, mount _completely ignores_ the fstab. Mount DOES check permissions, so if you want to do

Re: mounting the /floppy fails

2004-08-19 Thread Stefan O'Rear
messmate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've finded the pb (i think); when formatting a floppy on an other debain box (woody) i can mount it !! Is there a pb on the sarge kde kfloppy ? What is a pb? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: mounting the /floppy fails

2004-08-19 Thread messmate
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 08:46:18 -0700 Stefan O'Rear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: messmate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've finded the pb (i think); when formatting a floppy on an other debain box (woody) i can mount it !! Is there a pb on the sarge kde kfloppy ? What is a pb? -- Problem. --

mounting the floppy

2000-02-02 Thread debian
Something's wierd with mounting dos floppies under my current installation of slink debian. It worked before I had a hard drive crash and had to reinstall. I can read vfat hard drive partitions just fine. mtools isn't helping, either -- it cannot open the floppy device. I've tried mounting

Re: mounting macintosh floppy?

1999-11-12 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 12:35:12PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote On 10-Nov-99 T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote: how do i mount a mac format floppy? just like any other floppy. If you compiled your own kernel, make sure you enabled Mac support. Then do: mount -t hfs /dev/fd0 /floppy as

Re: mounting macintosh floppy?

1999-11-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On 10/11/99 T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote: how do i mount a mac format floppy? mount -t hfs /dev/fd0 /floppy this assumes you have compiled in support for hfs in your kernel or have it as a kernel module, if not you will have to recompile the kernel with hfs fs support. Best Regards, Ethan

mounting macintosh floppy?

1999-11-10 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
how do i mount a mac format floppy? -gnana

Re: mounting macintosh floppy?

1999-11-10 Thread aphro
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote: gnana how do i mount a mac format floppy? what format/filesystem is it ? FAT ? HFS ? nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet

RE: mounting macintosh floppy?

1999-11-10 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 10-Nov-99 T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote: how do i mount a mac format floppy? just like any other floppy. If you compiled your own kernel, make sure you enabled Mac support. Then do: mount -t hfs /dev/fd0 /floppy as root.

Mounting a floppy drive (and other qustions)

1999-02-14 Thread J K
Thanks to the people that helped me out with installation! Now I have a couple of questions about the basics of Linux. I just installed my system, and it works good, except for three things: 1. I can't mount the floppy drive. Does anyone know how to do this, or where I can find out how

Re: Mounting a floppy drive (and other qustions)

1999-02-14 Thread William Park
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, J K wrote: Thanks to the people that helped me out with installation! Now I have a couple of questions about the basics of Linux. I just installed my system, and it works good, except for three things: 1. I can't mount the floppy drive. Does anyone know how

Re: Mounting a floppy drive (and other qustions)

1999-02-14 Thread ivan
At 07:19 PM 2/13/99 PST, J K wrote: Thanks to the people that helped me out with installation! Now I have a couple of questions about the basics of Linux. I just installed my system, and it works good, except for three things: 1. I can't mount the floppy drive. Does anyone know how to do

Mounting a floppy drive

1999-02-14 Thread J K
Hi again! When I tried to mount my floppy drive using: mount -t msdod /dev/fd0 /a I got these messages: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?

Re: Mounting a floppy drive

1999-02-14 Thread Malcolm Miles
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 20:17:08 PST, you wrote: When I tried to mount my floppy drive using: mount -t msdod /dev/fd0 /a I got these messages: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device Similar thing here: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0

Re: Mounting a floppy drive

1999-02-14 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
apt-get install mtools? Malcolm Miles wrote: On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 20:17:08 PST, you wrote: When I tried to mount my floppy drive using: mount -t msdod /dev/fd0 /a I got these messages: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device Similar

Re: Mounting a floppy drive (and other qustions)

1999-02-14 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
ivan wrote: At 07:19 PM 2/13/99 PST, J K wrote: Thanks to the people that helped me out with installation! Now I have a couple of questions about the basics of Linux. I just installed my system, and it works good, except for three things: 1. I can't mount the floppy drive. Does

Re: Mounting a floppy drive

1999-02-14 Thread ivan
try mounting fd0 without specifying filesystem type. IIRC, the filesystem will be autodetected. If it is a win95/98 floppy you *may* need to specify filesystem vfat rather than msdos. I'm not sure on this one. Ivan. At 04:53 AM 2/14/99 GMT, Malcolm Miles wrote: On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 20:17:08

Re: Mounting a floppy drive

1999-02-14 Thread KTB
This may help. http://www.ssc.com/lg/issue01to08/linux_gazette.html#mounting Kent J K wrote: Hi again! When I tried to mount my floppy drive using: mount -t msdod /dev/fd0 /a I got these messages: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device

Re: Mounting a floppy drive

1999-02-14 Thread Malcolm Miles
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:09:25 +0800, you wrote: try mounting fd0 without specifying filesystem type. IIRC, the filesystem will be autodetected. Didn't help. Same errors and then it came back with mount: you must specify the filesystem type. If it is a win95/98 floppy you *may* need to specify

Re: Mounting a floppy drive

1999-02-14 Thread Malcolm Miles
apt-get: command not found mgm On Sun, 14 Feb 1999 05:12:55 +, you wrote: apt-get install mtools? Malcolm Miles wrote: On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 20:17:08 PST, you wrote: When I tried to mount my floppy drive using: mount -t msdod /dev/fd0 /a I got these messages: end_request: I/O

Re: Mounting a floppy drive

1999-02-14 Thread Malcolm Miles
Ignore that last message. mtools was already installed. I tried mdir and got the same sort of error messages as below end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 mgm On Sun, 14 Feb 1999 05:12:55 +, you wrote: apt-get install mtools? Malcolm Miles wrote: On Sat, 13 Feb 1999

Re: Mounting a floppy drive

1999-02-14 Thread Orion the Hunter
Quoting Malcolm Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Similar thing here: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 end_request: I/O error, dev

Re: Mounting a floppy drive

1999-02-14 Thread claydona
I have a 'not brilliant floppy that will sometimes give an error message with mdir a: or mcopy a: . It will often work on the second attempt ie. when the green light is still on and the disk still spinning from the first attempt; good luck angus claydon [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Mounting a floppy drive (still)

1999-02-14 Thread J K
Hi again! Another question: 1. I finally mounted my floppy drive with mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy, but when I try to l(i)s(t) a floppy, I get this error msg about 20 times: directory sread (sector 0xd) failed What am I doing wrong?

Re: Mounting a floppy drive

1999-02-14 Thread Malcolm Miles
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 22:12:41 -0800 (PST), you wrote: Try mount /dev/fd0u1440 /mnt -t msdos or mount /dev/fd0h1440 /mnt -t msdos And see if that works. Some fd0 drivers do not work for all floppy drives. I don't know why. Didn't work either. I tried formatting a few disks. They failed

Mounting a floppy drive (still)

1999-02-14 Thread J K
Hi again! A question: I finally mounted my floppy drive with mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy, but when I try to ls a floppy, I get this error msg about 20 times: directory sread (sector 0xd) failed What am I doing wrong? Thanks again,

Re: Mounting a floppy drive (still)

1999-02-14 Thread David B. Teague
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, J K wrote: Hi again! A question: I finally mounted my floppy drive with mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy, but when I try to ls a floppy, I get this error msg about 20 times: directory sread (sector 0xd) failed What am I doing wrong? Your mount command worked on my

Re: Mounting a floppy

1997-04-18 Thread Philippe Troin
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997 10:34:16 EDT Matthew Tebbens ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ishkill.ibm.com) wrote: What would be the best way to mount a floppy drive and have it readable and/or writable by ONLY 2 users ? I notice that after I mount the floppy I can't change the mode to have it readable by a group.

Re: Mounting a floppy

1997-04-18 Thread Christian Hudon
On Apr 17, Philippe Troin wrote Here it is: man mount. Explained a little further: add a line like this in /etc/fstab: /dev/fd0 /floppy msdos rw,uid=0,gid=25,noauto,user,umask=007 Now everyone can mount and umount the floppy, but only the users belonging to group floppy (GID 25) will

Re: Mounting a floppy

1997-04-18 Thread Philippe Troin
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997 21:31:56 EDT Christian Hudon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Here it is: man mount. Explained a little further: add a line like this in /etc/fstab: /dev/fd0 /floppy msdos rw,uid=0,gid=25,noauto,user,umask=007 Now everyone can mount and umount the floppy, but only

Re: Mounting a floppy

1997-04-18 Thread Christian Hudon
On Apr 18, Philippe Troin wrote Yes, of course. Pick a GID, replace /dev/fd0 by /dev/cdrom (or whatever the cdrom device is), and replace the gid=25 by something else. Hmm. There's one slight problem. It doesn't work. :) First, there's no mention of 'umask' under the mount manpage, so

Re: Mounting a floppy

1997-04-18 Thread Philippe Troin
On Fri, 18 Apr 1997 11:44:41 EDT Christian Hudon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Apr 18, Philippe Troin wrote Yes, of course. Pick a GID, replace /dev/fd0 by /dev/cdrom (or whatever the cdrom device is), and replace the gid=25 by something else. Hmm. There's one slight problem. It

Re: Mounting a floppy

1997-04-18 Thread d1temp
On 18 Apr, Christian Hudon wrote: On Apr 18, Philippe Troin wrote Yes, of course. Pick a GID, replace /dev/fd0 by /dev/cdrom (or whatever the cdrom device is), and replace the gid=25 by something else. Hmm. There's one slight problem. It doesn't work. :) First, there's no mention of

Mounting a floppy

1997-04-17 Thread Matthew Tebbens
What would be the best way to mount a floppy drive and have it readable and/or writable by ONLY 2 users ? I notice that after I mount the floppy I can't change the mode to have it readable by a group. I'm probably doing something wrong, or not understanding something.. Thanks, Matthew -- TO