Hello<BR> <BR> You should not put your floppy disk in the fstab unless you want to use <FONT color="0000,0000,ffff">noauto </FONT>option; and reason being is that if there is no floppy in the driver the mount will fail.<BR> <BR> Take a look at the manual pages "man fstab" and "man mount"for more information.<BR> <BR> <BR> To mount the floppy from the command prompt use <BR> <BR> <FONT color="ffff,0000,0000">mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /floppy (for Linux format disks) -or-<BR> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy (for Dos format disks)<BR> </FONT><BR> /floppy is a direct you must create under the root directory.<BR> <BR> WARNING:___You must unmount the floppy and remount the floppy to change disks.__<BR> <BR> <BR> The unmount command is:<BR> <BR> <FONT color="ffff,0000,0000">umount /dev/fd0<BR> </FONT><BR> Well I hope I have include all need information<BR> Christopher <BR> <BR> At 10:47 PM 2/3/99 -0500, you wrote:<BR>
<BR> When I try to do a mount /dev/fd0 it says that "mount: can't find /dev/fd0<BR> in /etc/mtab or /etc/fstab"<BR> <BR> However when I tried a cat /dev/fd0 it typed out the data from my floppy<BR> disk.<BR> <BR> My /etc/fstab file reads..........<BR> <BR> /dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1<BR> <BR> /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0<BR> <BR> /dev/hdc /cdrom iso9660 ro,noauto,user<BR> 0 0<BR> <BR> none /proc proc defaults 0 0<BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> How do I go about adding a line so that the floppy disk is accessible?!<BR> <BR> <BR> Thanks in advance!!<BR> <BR> -<BR> To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with<BR> this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e<BR> Check out the SuSE-FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the<BR> archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html<BR">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html<BR</A>> - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the archiv at http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html