By default, Mandrake sets /dev/fd0 (your floppy drive, mounted as
/mnt/floppy) to be the vfat filesystem. This means that for the disc to be
read by supermount it must be a FAT filesystem. You can change this by
looking in /etc/fstab and changing the bit that says "vfat" in the line that
specifies your floppy drive to either "ext2" (for ext2 only) or "auto" (to
automatically set the correct filesystem).
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 02:18, Adrian Smith wrote:
> if they are DOS formated (fat16) then they will supermount & you can access
> them. my understanding is that ext2 floppys will not automount and must be
> mounted using the mount command. you should be able to get in as user or
> root.
>
> Adrian Smith
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>
> >>> "Mr. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11:43:49 AM 12/20/00 >>>
>
> Ok. I have been playing around in linux and I was trying to access my
> floppy from both my superuser account and root. I did this via /mnt/floppy
> and I believe they are being supermounted. Do I still have to mount them
> or should they be accessible? Under root it was locked out which doesn't
> make sense to me. Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks in advance again
> Mr. Smith
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