Rich Clark wrote:
>
> On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Dennis Robertson wrote:
>
> > OK, here are the facts as they apply to my system. With supermount
> > enabled I cannot read ext2 floppies using any method suggested by the
> > list, mandrakeuser.org or devised by anyone, as far as I can tell.
> > With supermount disabled and using the conventional fstab entry
> > suggested by Ramon: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto
> > sync,user,noauto,nsuid,nodev,unhide 0 0 I used mount /mnt/floppy in a
> > term and then left clicked the desktop floppy icon. Lo and behold I
> > could open both vfat and ext2 floppies.
> > So there's a bug in supermount, right? How do some folks manage to use
> > it with ext2 floppies? Beats me. There's a bug in my system? I think
> > not.
> > Anyway it's very cumbersome and I don't mind using windows methods if
> > they're clearly better, as they would be in the case of supermount, if
> > only it worked. Roll on LM7.1.
> >
>
> Dennis, have you tried the following set of commands?
>
> umount /dev/fd0
> mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
>
> With fstab being set this way:
>
> /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
>
> I'd think that if you changed the entry in fstab so fs=ext2, you'd solve
> your problem.
>
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Rich,
Thanks, but I have tried that. On my system it seems supermount will
not allow ext2 floppies to be read, even though I have added ext2 to
/etc/filesystems. I am going to download Tom's root boot in vfat and
revert to using supermount for convenience but acknowledging I cannot
open ext2 floppies.
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