On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 02:38:13PM +0100, adrian.wells wrote:
SuSE 7.2 I can't mount my floppy disk although the machine boots from the floppy. Any ideas please? All was working well.
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.
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.
"proc" is the proc filesystem, which undoubtedly was there before, "devpts" is support for the pty98 standard. If you don't know what this is don't worry about it.
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
Errors When trying to mount the floppy drive using a freshly formatted, known to be good, disk
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad super block on /dev/fd0 or too may mounted file systems.
Most likely it isn't an MSDOS formatted floppy.
If fstab entry for the FDD is set to 'auto' I get
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
Try "ext2,vfat", this should cope with most floppies. -- Mark Evans St. Peter's CofE High School Phone: +44 1392 204764 X109 Fax: +44 1392 204763