Hi,
i have installed a Floppy into my PC. Which entries do I have to put into the fstab? Do I have to modify other files as well?
What do you want to do with the floppy disk?
If just to read and write DOS/Windows files, I recommend you don’t mount it but use the mtools package, which allow you to transfer files from/to floppies without mounting.
I like to create a LILO bootdisk because I had in the past a couple of system crashes which I couldn’t repair using either the rescue option nor SuperGrub.
You don’t necessarily need to mount for that either. It’s possible to create a bootdisk without mounting the floppy device. I couldn’t tell you anymore how it’s done with LILO, haven’t used that in years. Anyway you should find the instructions for creating a LILO floppy first and not worry about the fstab at this point.
On Wed December 31 2008 07:36 am, Rexikis wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> i have installed a Floppy into my PC. Which entries do I have to put
> into the -fstab-? Do I have to modify other files as well?
>
>
Rexikis;
This is from my fstab on OpenSuse 10.2
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0
I’m not sure about other files or if even this will work on newer releases.
But at least it’s a start. Good Luck.
–
P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green
I have added the entry in the fstab and created the mount points in /mnt and /media. When I enter at the command line:
mount -t auto /dev/fd0 /media/floppy I gett the following error message:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
Manchmal liefert das Syslog wertvolle Informationen versuchen Sie dmesg | tail oder so
What is wrong with it?
Probably because you haven’t put a filesystem on the floppy. Just like a hard disk, you have to write a filesystem on it before it can be mounted.
The floppy has been formated with kfloppy.
What do I have to do to specify a filesystem?
Well you have to choose your filesystem first: FAT, ext2, etc.
For FAT, the program you need is either mkdosfs or mformat.
when I type: mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 media/floppy, do I not specify with ext2 the filesystem
Sure, but then the floppy has to have an ext2 filesystem on it.
OK,
I created an empty directory on the floppy - and now it works fine.
Thanks !!