Re: [expert] Problems mounting floppy disks
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. -- Rich Clark Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers 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. -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street NOOSAVILLE QLD 4566 AUSTRALIA Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 Fax: Phone first for setup.
Re: [expert] Problems mounting floppy disks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following procedure works for me: 1. su to root 2. Enter command: umount /mnt/floppy 3. Enter command: mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy 4. Do whatever desired with the ext2 floppy. 5. To return to original setup: Enter command: umount /mnt/floppy 6. Enter command mount /mnt/floppy 7. Everything is back as it was - floppy setup to read vfat. Jame Gibbs 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. -- Unix is a Registered Bell of ATT Trademark Laboratories. -- Donn Seeley James, For me step3 elicits the response:Couldn't open /dev/fd0 no such device or address -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street NOOSAVILLE QLD 4566 AUSTRALIA Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 Fax: Phone first for setup.
[expert] Problems mounting floppy disks
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 Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street NOOSAVILLE QLD 4566 AUSTRALIA Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 Fax: Phone first for setup.
Re: [expert] Problems mounting floppy disks
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. -- Rich Clark Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [expert] Problems mounting floppy disks
yes, if he changed it to fs=ext2 he would beable to mount ext2 floppys but NOY vfat ones, which would place him back in the same boat he is in. with fs=vfat he cannot mount ext2 with fs=ext2 he cannot mount vfat BUT if he axes the cludge of supermount and reverts back to the working fstab entry as he mentioned then he should beable to mount both vfat and ext2 with the -t option to mount. I had the same problem here. I was able to reproduce the above results with consistancy. Ron 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. -- Rich Clark Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [expert] Problems mounting floppy disks
The following procedure works for me: 1. su to root 2. Enter command: umount /mnt/floppy 3. Enter command: mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy 4. Do whatever desired with the ext2 floppy. 5. To return to original setup: Enter command: umount /mnt/floppy 6. Enter command mount /mnt/floppy 7. Everything is back as it was - floppy setup to read vfat. Jame Gibbs 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. -- Unix is a Registered Bell of ATT Trademark Laboratories. -- Donn Seeley
