Bob Warren wrote:
>>
>> What you said turns out to be absolutely true, but you won't find
this in your fstab on Ubuntu Dapper:
>> /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
Mark Wieder wrote:
>
It's in my Dapper Drake distro - try changing the noauto to auto...
Chris Kassopulo wrote:
>
fstab is a fixed file, created on installation that includes mountable
devices and their mount points. I cannot mount a floppy without a valid
entry for the floppy drive in fstab.
Mark Wieder wrote:
>
That's my understanding of this as well. I guess when I boot into
recovery mode there's a different fstab somewhere that doesn't allow
access to the floppy for some reason, but I haven't yet found out
where that fstab lives.
...and I believe I read that you *can* mount a drive not in fstab, but
don't have the time right now to go look that up...
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Mark:
What is confusing this whole issue is the fact that we seem to be
getting different results using the same distro!
Yesterday, I acquired a new computer for my work in Linux. I installed
Ubuntu on it.
Also yesterday, I installed Kubuntu on my old machine.
On both machines, I am not running live CDs. Ubuntu and Kubuntu are
installed to the HD. They are both 100% up to date, since I have
downloaded all updates offered over the Internet. I am NOT running in
recovery or any other mode except NORMAL USER.
Neither the fstab for Ubuntu nor the fstab for Kubuntu has a line for
floppy in it. However, they both have lines for the CD-Rom. [Of course,
both computers possess a floppy drive physically!!]
How or why this should be apparently different on anyone else's
computer, I cannot say.
If you know of a means of mounting a (floppy) drive NOT cited in fstab,
then I would be very grateful to find out what it is. My present
situation is that the following line does not work in Rev any more:-
e.g.
get shell("mount /media/floppy0")
- and consequently my file/picture chooser widgets which were restricted
to funtioning in Ubuntu now no longer work at all with respect to the
floppy drive!
Bob
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