On 07-Mar-2000 rassoc wrote:
> Thanks for answering my call for help so quickly!
>
> ls -alk /dev/f*
> gave me a whole screen of information including the following:
>
> brw-------- 1 root floppy 2, 0 May 5 1998 /dev/fd0
> brw-------- 1 root floppy 2, 1 May 5 1998 /dev/fd1
>
> So both drives are there but trying to use both of them is driving me
> nuts.
>
> My fstab file is:
>
> /dev/hda1 /ext2 defaults 1 1
> /dev/hdb6 swap swap defaults 0 0
> /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat, dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
> /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660, dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
>
>
>
> mtab file is:
>
> /dev/hda1 / ext2 rw 0 0
> none /proc proc rw 0 0
> /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount rw, fs=vfat, dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
> none /dev/pts devpts rw, mode=0620 0 0
> /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount rw, fs=iso9660, dev=/dev/cdrom
>
>
>
> I tried to mount the second floppy by using "mount /dev/fd1" but got the
> error message "Mount: can't find /dev/fd1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab".
The command is:
mount /dev/fd1 -t auto /mnt/floppy
(i.e.: mount [device name] -t [partition format type, 'auto' should work]
[mount point]
Your command would only work, if the mount point would already been defined in
/etc/fstab.
> I tried to add a second
> /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat, dev=/dev/fd1 0 0
> to the fstab file but when I rebooted the system it hangs on "Unmounting
> File Systems" and after forcing a hard boot it hangs right after
> "Remounting Root File System in Read-Write Mode [OK]".
Sure it would: you have defined *one* mount point (/mnt/floppy) for *two*
different devices, /dev/fd0 and /dev/fd1.
Just create a new directory in /mnt (e.g. mkdir /mnt/floppy2) and change the
fstab entry accordingly.
> I'm now re-installing 7.0...
This is Linux, we don't reinstall... ;-)
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks!!!
>
> Lori Rothermel
Regards
tom
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