Guest lawriem Posted April 5, 2005 Report Share Posted April 5, 2005 My Mandrake 10.1 fstab file has no entry to mount a floppy disk. I was using mdk 9.2 but it seems the mount command and options are written differently from 9.2 to 10.1 due to udev now being used. I have started writing the mount floppy string, but am not sure of the options req. Can another mdk 10.1 user please post a copy of their "etc/fstab" file so i can copy the line entry for mounting floppies ?? I don't know why the mount floppy entry is missing as i have not had this problem before. Thank you very much in advance. [moved from Software by spinynorman - welcome aboard :)] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisM Posted April 5, 2005 Report Share Posted April 5, 2005 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850 0 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lawriem Posted April 6, 2005 Report Share Posted April 6, 2005 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850 0 0 <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thank you ChrisM, much appreciated. Thanks for the welcome, spinynorman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted April 6, 2005 Report Share Posted April 6, 2005 Welcome to MUB.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lawriem Posted April 6, 2005 Report Share Posted April 6, 2005 :D Thank you for the welcome to MUB. I have now edited my etc/fstab file and the floppy works now ! Only problem i had was when i went to unmount by right clicking on the icon, i got an error saying "only root can unmount the disk", so i "su" into a terminal and unmounted ok. I have now added the option "user" to the line for the floppy in the fstab file, so i should now be able to unmount as a user. Other than that, the floppy now reads/writes fine...thank you again, ChrisM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisM Posted April 6, 2005 Report Share Posted April 6, 2005 Glad it worked out. You can also check out options available in the MCC>mount points>floppy>options etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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