Hi, Group:
Many thanks to all who responded to the many e-mails on this subject.
The problem is with that particular floppy disk. The SuSE install
program offers to create a boot floppy and also to write the LILO
information to the same disk. The disk was somehow corrupted and had
no identi
Hi, Mike:
Before I screw around with this SuSE 7.2 boot disk (which is currently
my only means to boot the system) I will need to go into YaST2 and make
another boot disk.
(Does anyone else get the feeling that someone at SuSE has had problems
with their or keys?)
According to fdisk, there
Ok so try this then:
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /media/floppy
stayler
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 16:18:43 -0600, Glenn Williams wrote:
> mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy
>
>and it produced the following error message:
>
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0,
>
On Tuesday 10 July 2001 05:41, Tom Wilson wrote:
> Glenn Williams wrote:
> > Hi, Michael:
> >
> > No, the mount point is actually /media/floppy (see the fstab entry
> > below in my original message). I could edit the fstab and
> > change it to
[snip]
'auto' will only work if the module for the
On Mon, 09 Jul 2001, Glenn Williams dropped these nuggets of information:
> Hi, Lonni:
>
> I tried your version of the mount command:
>
> mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy
>
> and it produced the following error message:
>
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /
Hi, Lonni:
I tried your version of the mount command:
mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy
and it produced the following error message:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0,
or too many mounted file systems
I tried it as su also, although that s
Hi, Tom:
I tried the variation of the mount command you suggested (below) and
that produced the same output as if I had typed "mount --help."
I surmise the key to this problem is knowing what file system type
YaST2 used to write to the floppy disk during the installation of SuSE
7.2 This is
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> > Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 12:42 PM
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> > Subject: Can't read floppy disk
> >
> [snip]
>
> > I have the SuSE 7.2 Personal
Glenn Williams wrote:
> Hi, Michael:
>
> No, the mount point is actually /media/floppy (see the fstab entry
> below in my original message). I could edit the fstab and
> change it to
> something more conmventional, such as /mnt/floppy, but doubt
> that that
> would change anything.
>
> T
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> Subject: Can't read floppy disk
>
[snip]
> I have the SuSE 7.2 Personal Edition boot disk created during the
> installation, in drive a:. I
Monday, July 09, 2001 12:42 PM
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Subject: Can't read floppy disk
Hi, Group:
I am ashamed to display my ignorance by asking this, but I don't know
what else to try, or where else to look.
I have the SuSE 7.2 Personal Edition boot disk created during the
installation,
Hi, Group:
I am ashamed to display my ignorance by asking this, but I don't know
what else to try, or where else to look.
I have the SuSE 7.2 Personal Edition boot disk created during the
installation, in drive a:. I want to take a look at the lilo file on
the disk. I tried to mount it (as
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