Larry Sword wrote:
>
> 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
> >
>
> I don't have your original message, however:
>
> >From the entries in you fstab I see that you have fd0 as supermount, vfat. This
> means that when using KDE you can simply click on the floppy icon to mount and
> read your vfat floppy. SO in order to mount an ext2 format floppy you must FIRST
> umount /mnt/floppy THEN you should be able to place an ext2 format floppy in your
> drive and mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy.
>
> Larry
Thanks Larry. When I tried to umount /mnt/floppy I got the message:
only root can unmount /mnt/fd0 from /mnt/floppy. So I su'd and
unmounted then tried your suggested mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
and got: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0 or too
many mounted filesystems.
Thanks Donna. dmesg says: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M (which I take
to be OK).
Thanks Civileme. The fix? at Mandrakeuser.org does not work. Evidently
supermount doesn't recognise fs=auto, because when I revert to fs=vfat
it works.
Thanks Lee. Could you explain your entry, please?
Thanks John. I think the no-supermount way is the way I must go.
Surely there is irony, if not a counter-revolutionary element, in the
fact that supermount will only read files using the arch-enemy's
filesystem. Or is there more than a passing coincidence in the name
Mandrakesoft? :-)
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