On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 09:13, Carl Lafferty wrote:
You are on the right track. By fedault, Mandrake creates an fstab entry
for the floppy with the fat (DOS) filesystem. You can create another
fstab entry for the same device (using the ext2 filesystem), just give
it a different name (and
On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 08:24, Carl Lafferty wrote:
it occured to me the other day to try mounting
a floppy on which I had created an EXT2 file system.
I can mount the floppy with
mount /dev/fd0 /floppy -t ext2
as root and things work OK but under no circumstances
can I mount it from my
Michael D. Viron wrote:
Make sure that the user is a part of the 'floppy' group. Otherwise you
will not be able to mount the floppy as a non-root user.
How do you do this?
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On Tuesday 13 November 2001 13:23, you wrote:
Michael D. Viron wrote:
Make sure that the user is a part of the 'floppy' group. Otherwise you
will not be able to mount the floppy as a non-root user.
How do you do this?
Pardon me for jumping in, I am off work today and thought I might help
At 02:23 PM 11/13/2001 -0500, you wrote:
Michael D. Viron wrote:
Make sure that the user is a part of the 'floppy' group. Otherwise you
will not be able to mount the floppy as a non-root user.
How do you do this?
edit /etc/groups, and add the username after the last : in whatever group
On 25-Jul-99 Andy Goth wrote:
It's a DOS floppy, so:
mount -t fat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
That should do it.
I thought that was -t msdos.
it could be msdos, or fat, or vfat.
vfat would be best, as it supports long file names.
none of it matters, though, if you still have
I know that one of those fields is for order of fsck checking at
bootup. Look into the man page for fstab for details.
The last one is the fsck order, and should be set in ascending order on
partitions on a common spindle, else fsck will be run in parallel on the
partitions, causing
- Original Message -
From: Joe Brault [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 23, 1999 10:28 PM
Subject: [newbie] mounting a floppy??
I downloaded some utilities on my win98 machine, and want to transfer them
over to my linux machine, but when I put the disk
I downloaded some utilities on my win98 machine, and want to transfer them
over to my linux machine, but when I put the disk in the drive and click
on
the icon, it says:
could not mount
error log:
mount you must specify the filesystem type
It's a DOS floppy, so:
mount -t fat /dev/fd0
Not anymore. :-) Especially if you want long filename support.
John
- Original Message -
From: Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, July 24, 1999 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] mounting a floppy??
It's a DOS floppy, so:
mount -t fat /dev/fd0
It's a DOS floppy, so:
mount -t fat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
That should do it.
I thought that was -t msdos.
it could be msdos, or fat, or vfat.
vfat would be best, as it supports long file names.
none of it matters, though, if you still have problems with the command.
]
Sent: Saturday, July 24, 1999 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] mounting a floppy??
It's a DOS floppy, so:
mount -t fat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
That should do it.
I thought that was -t msdos.
]
Sent: Saturday, July 24, 1999 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] mounting a floppy??
It's a DOS floppy, so:
mount -t fat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
That should do it.
I thought that was -t msdos.
It's a DOS floppy, so:
mount -t fat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
That should do it.
I thought that was -t msdos.
it could be msdos, or fat, or vfat.
vfat would be best, as it supports long file names.
none of it matters, though, if you still have problems with the command.
If
I downloaded some utilities on my win98 machine,
and want to transfer them over to my linux machine, but when I put the disk in
the drive and click on the icon, it says:
could not mount
error log:
mount you must specify the filesystem
type
Can anyone help me with this??
Thanks in
mount /dev/fd0
cd /mnt/floppy
ls
Joe Brault wrote:
I
downloaded some utilities on my win98 machine, and want to transfer them
over to my linux machine, but when I put the disk in the drive and click
on the icon, it says:could
not mounterror log:mount
you must specify the filesystem typeCan
mount -f filesystem-type /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
I think that's mount -t, isn't it?
Yes.
the correct command is:
mount /dev/fd0 -t vfat /mnt/floppy
this assumes it's a windows formated floppy ( vfat ), and the you want to mount
it on /mnt/floppy (the default on LM and RH). This command also works like this:
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
the /dev/fd0 is the first floppy
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