Re: Problems mounting floppies and cdroms.

2001-04-02 Thread Robert Voigt
> Command [as root] "mount /dev/fd0 /floppy" gets > response "mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block > device". I get this error when I forgot to insert a floppy. This won't help you much I guess. If you have a line like this in /etc/fstab: /dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0 you

Re: Problems mounting floppies and cdroms.

2001-04-02 Thread Frédéric de Villamil
Hi, as root, just add this line in your /etc/fstab file, it may be usefull /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 and every user will be able to mount you cdrom device typing mount /dev/cdrom or mount /cdrom and /dev/fd0 /floppy auto noauto,user then mount /d

Problems mounting floppies and cdroms.

2001-04-02 Thread Pad Bambury
Hello all, I'm a new user who's been through the installation etc successfully but am finding it impossible to mount any floppies/cdroms. Command [as root] "mount /dev/fd0 /floppy" gets response "mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device". And the command "mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom" gets respons

Problems mounting floppies and cdroms.

2001-04-02 Thread Pad Bambury
Hello all, I'm a new user who's been through the installation etc successfully but am finding it impossible to mount any floppies/cdroms. Command [as root] "mount /dev/fd0 /floppy" gets response "mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device". And the command "mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom" gets respons