Re: Cannot mount floppy drive in Squeeze
Bob, Camaleon, Dom, Stephen, Tom & others,
I am replying to the last message I found in the thread. If there
is one later, I didn't ignore it deliberately.
* From: Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com>
* Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 22:21:13 -0500 (EST)
> No, the data is intact, as the mounting of the image file with
> the loop option confirms. Also, further experimentation seems
> to suggest that if the floppy disk is physically mounted in the
> floppy drive during boot, then I can logically mount it with the
> mount command after boot. This really is looking like a bug.
> I intend to file a bug report, but I'd like to do some more
> trial-and-error experimentation before I do.
This is relevant.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=483781
The best explanation appears to be cited by A.E. Patrakov in the bug report.
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/6.3/chapter08/fstab.html
Scroll to the bottom of the page and read "Filesystems with MS-DOS ...".
My encounter with this has been an attempt to make a bootable
diskette for updating the BIOS on a Foxconn board. Did Foxconn
have their filesystem mounted with UTF8 and the US codepage?
If they used strictly ASCII filenames, are the encoding and
codepage a concern?
[Use MS or have more trouble than bargained for ... again!]
Regards, ... Peter E.
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