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apasuper8
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 Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2002 1:04 pm Post subject: mounting floppy via terminal window |
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What is the command to mount the floppy drive in a xterm window. I was trying to execute the following command:
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
and it comes back saying "missing filesystem type"
What am I missing...
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delta407
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| Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2002 1:08 pm Post subject: |
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Is fd0 in your /etc/fstab? If so, you shouldn't have problems. If it's not, you can type -t vfat (if it's a "standard" [Windows] floppy) or -t ext2/ext3/reiserfs/minixfs/mycrazyfs if it's a floppy you're sharing between Linux boxen.
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Naan Yaar
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| Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2002 1:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Also, do you have VFAT support compiled into your kernel or as a module? |
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apasuper8
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| Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2002 1:13 pm Post subject: |
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| nope ... didn't build that in my kernel ... |
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Naan Yaar
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| Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2002 1:16 pm Post subject: |
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You need it if you want to mount FAT/VFAT. Try turning these three on for good measure:
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DOS FAT fs support
MSDOS fs support
VFAT (Windows-95) fs support
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All this assumes that the floppy is DOS formatted. If it is formatted as ext2, you would not need any of the above  . |
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Naan Yaar
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pjp
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| Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2002 4:36 pm Post subject: |
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Also: | Code: | # emerge -s mtools
[ Results for search key : mtools ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]
* app-admin/mtools
Latest version Available: 3.9.8-r1
Latest version Installed: [ Not Installed ]
Homepage: http://mtools.linux.lu
Description: Mtools is a collection of utilities to access MS-DOS disks
from Unix without mounting them. It supports Win95 style long file
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Naan Yaar
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So am I . Hence the suggestion to emerge above:
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You can also emerge mtools and use it
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The link was basically for information re: DOS access et al.
| kanuslupus wrote: | | ...I'm a stickler for using an ebuild. |
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