On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 7:51 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > Have been struggling with some niggling problems (well maybe more than > niggling) The original ubuntu is 7.04 with some partial upgrades / > updates from 7.10. > > I also installed some additional packages to try and improve access to > other file systems and some auto mount tools and what has happened is > that vfat partitions on external USB devices like FAT32 an FAT16 file > systems don't get mounted. > the programs installed are automount, cdfs-src , fuseutils. > > There is an VFAT partition on my laptop hard disk which mounts normally. > > The error i get while trying to mount these external systems is > > "Cannot Mount Volume > > Unable to Mount the volume "S_disc' > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1, missing > codepage or helper program or other error. In some cases useful infor is > found in syslog - try dmesg|tail or so" > > then > ram-laptop:~$ dmesg |tail > [ 1037.760000] sdb: Mode Sense: 27 00 00 00 > [ 1037.760000] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through > [ 1037.760000] sdb: sdb1 sdb2 > [ 1037.780000] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb > [ 1037.780000] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 > [ 1038.236000] FAT: Unrecognized mount option "usefree" or missing value > [ 1038.292000] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds > [ 1038.292000] EXT3 FS on sdb2, internal journal > [ 1038.292000] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. > [ 1837.152000] FAT: Unrecognized mount option "usefree" or missing value > > which i don't understand ?? > > so whats this problem and how can it be resolved. > *** > I have not done a full upgrade from 7.04 to 7.10 because the first time > i did it crashed the x-org and i had to reinstall 7.04 and then do only > selective upgrades (of some packages) from 7.10. Also unable to install > 7.10 because i have only the repository DVD's and not a boot cd / dvd.
Can you please tell us what kind of enhancements you wanted to do for which ytou installed automount, cdfs-src , fuseutils? By the way, AFAIK, the DVD is also bootable if you have downloaded it from mirrors and not created one yourself. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
