Hello again Peter
mount -t minix /dev/fd0 /floppy fails with Wrong syntax !!!!!! it should be mount -t minix /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
and be sure you first, in your /mnt directory do mkdir floppy in other words, you make a directory called, floppy in the /mnt directory for mounting floppys of any filesystem you need. I know that my lilo - floppy made minix file system - so I'm pretty sure that that's what you need . Unless you made the floppy with another kernel that had minix support , and your present kernel does not ? Hope this helps cheers John WM
On 11 May 2001, Peter B. Van Campen wrote: Dale & SuSErs
I cannot mount the lilo boot diskette with: mount /floppy (using the fstab entry to specify the auto option) it replies "mount you must specify the filesystem type"
mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /floppy fails with reply: "wrong fs type. bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or too many mounted file systems"
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy fails with reply: "wrong fs type. bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or too many mounted file systems"
mount -t minix /dev/fd0 /floppy fails with reply: "wrong fs type. bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or too many mounted file systems"
but on a mount /floppy cmd when a msdos diskette is inserted it mounts correctly!!
PeterB
Dale Schuster wrote:
On 10 May 2001, at 19:33, Peter B. Van Campen wrote:
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy gets "mount point /mnt/floppy does not exist" mount /dev/fd0 /floppy gets "you must specify filesystem type"
it sounds like you need the "-t" option when you mount the floppy. What type of filesystem is the floppy formatted? Perhaps "msdos" or "ext2".
If the floppy is msdos format the mount command should be: mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy
just replace the parameter for the "-t" option with the appropriate filesystem type.
Let me know how it goes. ~Dale
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