"Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote:
>
> On Sat, 04 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> | Ramon,
> | Thankyou for your concise and thoughtful reply. I have saved it for future
> | reference. I have tried the entries you suggested for my fstab file and
> | it just isn't working. I am including a copy of my fstab file in hopes
> | someone can point out what I'm doing wrong here. I am able to mount vfat
> | floppies, just can't get the ext2 working. I've tried all the
> | obvious.. Here's the fstab file, the way it came configured in Mandrake
> | 7.0:
> |
> | /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
> | /dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> | /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
> | /dev/hda7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
> | /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
>
> The "fs=vfat" says:
>
> I want this to work for vfat.
>
> if you want to mount ext2 floppies, you can at a minimum just change
> that to
>
> "fs=ext2"
Does not work. Response is: Could not listdirectory contents
file:/mount/floppy
>
> Though there's something terrily wrong if
>
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,user 0 0
There is something terribly wrong
>
> doesn't do it for you. Of course if you use this above you do have to
> "mount" it before you can use it. This is the Unix Classic approach.
> I've had very little luck with supermount myself, and use this approach.
>
> That is, to use it, you do
>
> mount /mnt/floppy
> ls /mnt/floppy
>
> and when done (this is important!) before removing it do
>
> umount /mnt/floppy
>
> If that doesn't work, please copy-and-paste the precise error messages
> you are getting.
>
> | none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> | none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
> | /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
> |
> |
> | thanks again
> |
> |
> | --dale
> |
> | "my mind is scheduled to clear tomorrow, then not again for another 400 years."
> --
> I am "Brian, the man from babble-on" (Brian T. Schellenberger).
> I can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
> I support http://www.eff.org & http://www.programming-freedom.org .
> I boycott amazon.com. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazon.html .
--
Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street NOOSAVILLE QLD 4566 AUSTRALIA
Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 Fax: Phone first for setup.
