On Sun, 16 May 2004 10:43 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 08:05, John Richard Smith wrote: > > >I am coming in late here but remove supermount might be the answer, so > > > it has always been in my systems. On some it works on others it > > > doesn't. > > > > > >HTH > > > > Easyest wayI found was to # out the entries for supermount floppies and > > replace them with, > > > > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto > > user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 > > > > that sets up automount which does work. > > Neither of these suggestions work either. I # out any reference to > mounting the floppy and attempted to mount manually after a reboot. > Still no luck, the message is that fd0 is not a valid block device. If > I look in the /dev directory, fd0 is there with me as the owner. What > on earth is going on???? > > Rich Try this, in /etc/fstab :- /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto unhide,noauto,user 0 0 It will probably deliver error messages other than that the /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device. Then adjust accordingly. The only other thing I can think of is try this, in /etc/fstab :- /dev/floppy/0 /mnt/floppy auto rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,unhide,umask=0,user=rich 0 0 Or whatever your user name is. Or leave out the actual =rich out of the line. Try both ways. That is how my system writes it in /etc/mtab so that might be of assistance. I have got things working by following the lead of /etc/mtab. Apologies because I am still using 9.2 and not 10 of any version.
Nothing seems to work. I copied the line from /etc/mtab into /etc/fstab and am able to mount the floppy manually from the cl. I can read the floppy but when I try to copy a file to it, it begins by asking if I want to overwrite the file with the same name; I reply yes and the copy sequence starts, puts in the new date and then stops with a 'input/output' error. The file on the floppy has a new date and a size of 0!
I'm baffled. We're in the process of moving and I just don't have a lot of time to spend on this problem anymore.
Rich
