--- "adrian.wells"
SuSE 7.2 I can't mount my floppy disk although the machine boots from the floppy. Any ideas please? All was working well.
If it is a boot-floppy such as a rescue disk, then you can't.
History: I inadvertently deleted the contents of ect! and then tried to open the floppy to update some files that I had deleted. The machine told me that fstab did not exist. It was at this point that I noted that ect was in the bin! (by the way, never noticed before that there is no restore from the bin!) I replaced the files but it will still not mount the floppy
I have tried several floppy disks, re-booted etc.
Ah, then this is interesting.....
Below is a copy of my fstab and the errors that I can generate. I'm sure that I used to use an fstab editor, can anyone suggest what it may have been?
Adrian
PS what are "proc" & "devpts" ? I don't remember seeing these before.
fstab entry
/dev/sda7 / ex2 defaults 1 1 /dev/sda5 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0 /dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy msdos noauto,user,sync 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/sda1 /windows/c vfat noauto,user 0 0 /dev/sda6 swap swap pri=42 0 0
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
And if fstab entry for the FDD is set to 'dos' I get
mount: fs type not supported by kernel
Your kernel is missing several in-built modules by the sounds of things. If you can re-compile it, or use SuSE's YAST tool to re-copy the original kernel. proc is a virtual fs used by the kernel. -- Thomas Adam ===== Thomas Adam "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- www.linuxgazette.com __________________________________________________ Yahoo! Plus For a better Internet experience http://www.yahoo.co.uk/btoffer