Greetings all,
Formatting a floppy should be an easy task, right? Not for us newbies it
seems!
Checked the floppy with Konsole to make sure there's nothing on it I want to
keep (there's not)
Installed fdutils.tried to superformat /dev/fd0 (found this on a
webpage)
Got the message
Nyal,
the issue is you want to unmount it before formatting it. Since you used
konsole to check it, supermount had mounted it, and it was in use. You want
to unmount your drive, and first it has to not be in use to unmount it. So..
cd to another location, and make sure nothing is using
You have to unmount it first.
Formatting a disk volume while something else is using it is a Bad
Thing (tm)
umount /dev/fd0
You may need to kill/suspend any automount daemon if you have one
running.
On Sunday, January 4, 2004, at 03:02 AM, nyal wrote:
Greetings all,
Formatting a floppy
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 09:45:45AM -0500, Jamie wrote:
Nyal,
the issue is you want to unmount it before formatting it. Since you used
konsole to check it, supermount had mounted it, and it was in use. You want
to unmount your drive, and first it has to not be in use to unmount it. So..
are you trying to mount a drive/mass storage device over USB?
things to try:
mount -a
will show mounted volumes
ls -l /dev/sda*
will tell you if you are actually attempting to mount the correct
device.
On Sunday, January 4, 2004, at 09:37 AM, Dirk Ouellette wrote:
Are these logs telling
Being that you're using KDE you should just look under your
menus for floppy formatter or something of that sort. That
should work even with the supermount option.
--- T. Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 09:45:45AM -0500, Jamie wrote:
Nyal,
the issue is you
On Sunday 04 January 2004 12:43 pm, Larry Price wrote:
: are you trying to mount a drive/mass storage device over USB?
Firstly, mount requies root, so login as root before you do any mounting...
:
: things to try:
:
: mount -a
mount -a mounts everything listed in the /etc/fstab, simply typing
7. PDA not working (Dirk Ouellette)
9. Re: PDA not working (Larry Price)
This is a usb mounted pda using Palm OS 4.1 as per
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/PalmOS-HOWTO/
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