Hello Here is the entry for your fstab file /dev/fd0 /floppy ext2 rw,noauto,user 0 0 Note: You must creat the directory /floppy before trying to mount the floppy disk. Also this will only mount a linux formatted floppy. To mount the floppy from the command line 1. Make sure a format floppy is in drive A 2. Issue this command: mount /dev/fd0 3. To change disk you must unmount the floppy and then remount the floopy disk. umount /dev/fd0 now change disks and then mount /dev/fd0 Christopher At 10:45 AM 2/4/99 -0500, you wrote:

When I do put that line in and try to mount it by giving the command mount

/floppy/ it

says that only root can do that...

However when I change the fstab entry to......

/dev/fd0 /floppy auto rw,noauto,user,exec,umask=000

and issue a mount /floppy/ command it says......

zuli@L31:/home/zuli > mount /floppy/ mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or too many mounted file systems

And also when I issue just the mount command to see what is mounted it says........

zuli@L31:/home/zuli > mount /dev/hda5 on / type ext2 (rw) proc on /proc type proc (rw)

It's werid :-)

I don't think the AUTO entry works. When I change it to ext2 or msdos, it works just fine

...

You could also use something like

/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto defaults 0 0

This way the file system is detected automatically.

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On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Stefan Troeger wrote:

Hi,

On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 10:45 -0500, Zulfiqar Naushad wrote:

...

However when I change the fstab entry to......

/dev/fd0 /floppy auto rw,noauto,user,exec,umask=000

and issue a mount /floppy/ command it says......

zuli@L31:/home/zuli > mount /floppy/ mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or too many mounted file systems [...] It's werid :-)

Indeed. When I put it in, it works. The mount man page says that with the auto option the superblock gets probed and that the heuristics used for the probing sometimes fails.

I get the same error, but I've found that it works if I use the "defaults" option. Of course then the system tries to mount /floppy at boot time, which leads to a different error message in the syslog. Phil -- Philip Stokes Email: phil@stokes.demon.co.uk Fax: +44 (0)870 164 1242 - 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>>