Christopher Ballog wrote:
Hello
You should not put your floppy disk in the fstab unless you want to use noauto option; and reason being is that if there is no floppy in the driver the mount will fail.
Take a look at the manual pages "man fstab" and "man mount"for more information.
To mount the floppy from the command prompt use
mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /floppy (for Linux format disks) -or- mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy (for Dos format disks)
I'm somewhat adverse to typing long lines, so I have /dev/fd0 in fstab in two locations, thus: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 user,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/vfat vfat user,noauto 0 0 Works fine, and all I have to do to mount a Linux floppy is type: mount /mnt/floppy or a Win95 floppy: mount /mnt/vfat (The /mnt/floppy is a carry-over from my Red Hat days.) George - 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 <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>