I've been trying to get an answer to this for about a month now but no
luck so far. Since you're back, Civileme, perhaps you know. A friend
and I both have 8.1 installed on completely different machines. Neither
of us can mount a floppy that has been fully formatted in the KDE
floppy formatter
On Monday 26 November 2001 06:23 pm, Randy Donohoe wrote:
> machines. Neither of us can mount a floppy that has been fully
> formatted in the KDE floppy formatter using the ext2 file system.
> DOS, yes, ext2 , no. Any ideas?
What does fstab say? as you can see from mine (below), I had to
co
On Monday 26 November 2001 05:54 pm, you wrote:
> On Monday 26 November 2001 06:23 pm, Randy Donohoe wrote:
> > machines. Neither of us can mount a floppy that has been fully
> > formatted in the KDE floppy formatter using the ext2 file system.
> > DOS, yes, ext2 , no. Any ideas?
>
>What does
Randy Donohoe wrote:
> On Monday 26 November 2001 05:54 pm, you wrote:
>
>> On Monday 26 November 2001 06:23 pm, Randy Donohoe wrote:
>>
>>> machines. Neither of us can mount a floppy that has been fully
formatted
>>> in the KDE floppy formatter using the ext2 file system. DOS,
>>> yes,
Randy Donohoe wrote:
>
> I've been trying to get an answer to this for about a month now but no
> luck so far. Since you're back, Civileme, perhaps you know. A friend
> and I both have 8.1 installed on completely different machines. Neither
> of us can mount a floppy that has been fully formatted
Tuesday, November 27, 2001 12:13 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] ext2 formatted floppies
>
> <>
> Randy Donohoe wrote:
> >
> > I've been trying to get an answer to this for about a month now but no
>
> From my understanding the mount device on the KDE desktop uses the
> mtools utilities when mounting the floppy as to format and file type.
>
> You can still mount a floppy, ext2, using the command: (as root)
> mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy.
That's what I've been using and it's not any big deal, I
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 01:56 am, you wrote:
> You might need to use mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy as the
> /etc/fstab defines the filesystem type=vfat sometimes and then only
> vfat can be mounted normally.
>
> Arnab
I'm using auto on my floppy and cd, cd works fine. Thanks Arnab.
Randy
> Wow! I know I've been able to mount my ext2 floppies in the past, but
> I just tried it to see what you were talking about and I got the same
> error! I'll do some research and see if I can't find out what the
> problem is.
>
> Mike
It's not hurting anything, but I'd like to fix it. Thanks Mi
Le Mardi 27 Novembre 2001 00:23, vous avez écrit :
> I've been trying to get an answer to this for about a month now but no
> luck so far. Since you're back, Civileme, perhaps you know. A friend
> and I both have 8.1 installed on completely different machines. Neither
> of us can mount a floppy th
Randy Donohoe wrote:
> and I both have 8.1 installed on completely different machines. Neither
> of us can mount a floppy that has been fully formatted in the KDE
> floppy formatter using the ext2 file system. DOS, yes, ext2 , no. Any
It is because of your /etc/fstab. Floppy is declared as b
My fstab floppy entry is set to auto, shouldn't that take care of it?
Thanks,
Randy Donohoe
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> From: Andriamirado Thierry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > Randy Donohoe wrote:
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On Friday 30 Nov 2001 10:07 pm, you wrote:
> Randy Donohoe wrote:
> > My fstab floppy entry is set to auto, shouldn't that take care of it?
> > Thanks,
> > Randy Donohoe
>
> Even if you set it to auto,vfat or ext2 it will not mount using the
> floppy
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