Dale Morris 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
> 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."
Dale,
Supermount is a new feature in filesystems which came about
basically with mandrake 7. Use the
/dev/fd0 /somemountpoint auto sync,rw,user,nosuid,unhide 0 0
as a line in fstab while putting a # in front of the /mnt/floppy
line and see if that helps
You will then have to specifically and explicitly
$ mount /dev/fd0
before reading or writing ext2 filesystems
and
$ umount /dev/fd0
when you are ready to remove them.
Supermount seems to have been a concession to windows users, and
I have made use of it. Since /dev/fd0 was automounting when a
floppy was inserted, I did
ln -s /mnt/floppy /home/msbrainwasheduser/Desktop
and then I changed the icon of that "shortcut" folder to a
mounted floppy--(it changes to a locked folder when no floppy is
inserted) and hid the supermount icon by adding a dot to the name
of the kdelnk
Now ex-windows users can drag a file to the floppy icon in
complete comfort. (Hey, you can't do that in windows that
way--only in MAC was the icon on the desktop.)
Of course, they had trouble saving to floppy from StarOffice,
because they had to navigate ALL the way to /mnt/floppy from
/home/msbrainwasheduser/Office51/work and then they might have to
mount the floppy as well.... SO
ln -s /mnt/floppy /home/msbrainwasheduser/Office51/work
made them even more unhappy because now they can't cry to their
bosses that there are too many steps to using linux to save a
file to floppy. They know they are losing the campaign to bring
windows back.
Civileme
--
experimentation involving more than 500 trials with an
ordinary slice of bread and a tablespoon of peanut butter
has determined that the probability a random toss will
land sticky side down (SSD) is approximately .98
