Re: mounting the /floppy fails
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On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, messmate wrote:
> on my debian sarge can't mount /floppy as user nor root :(
It's probably your kernel.
> The fstab output:
> /dev/fd0 /floppy auto users,noauto 0 0
Looks like my fstab.
/dev/fd0 /floppy auto user,noauto 0 0
That's my line.
> sudo mount /dev/fd0 /floppy
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type
That means that the 'auto' mode was unable to determine the filesystem
type of the floppy in the drive.
I'm running a 2.2 kernel on my laptop (the only machine that I own that
still has a working floppy drive :). Here's the relevant kernel options
that I have set in its kernel:
CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS=y
CONFIG_FAT_FS=y
CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=y
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y
Have you installed a custom kernel, or a kernel image? If not: what does
Sarge install by default these days? Perhaps posting the output of uname
might help us help you.
If you're still in the Stone Age that is 2.2, you can try setting those
config options in your kernel config. If you're on 2.4 or 2.6, you can try
looking for the equivalent options in the later kernels (have they been
renamed? I forget).
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