On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 12:40:55AM -0700, Kevin A Smith wrote: > I'm pulling hair already..... > > I have debian running on a desktop system now, all working fine > with network access - but I cannot access either my CDROM or FLOPPY > drives. > > I've tried "installing" the drivers via "modconf", but my first > problem is that my CDROM does not appear to be supported - at > least with the drivers that I have available (where do I go to get > a list of supported CDROMs)? [I have a Digital Research CDROM x36].
Don't know, but a good chance if it's standard ATAPI fare. $ mount -t iso9660 -o ro,unhide /dev/hd? /cdrom > Next, though my floppy seems to have been "installed", I get errors > when I try to mount it: > kevin-dsl-212:/floppy# mount -t ext2 /dev/fd1u1440 /floppy > mount: block device /dev/fd1u1440 is write-protected, mounting read-only > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd1u1440, > or too many mounted file systems > > How do you know which device to select in "/dev"? I tried the one I thought > it should be (from the man pages and other docs), but got: > kevin-dsl-212:/floppy# mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /floppy > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, > or too many mounted file systems Your positive the floppy is formatted with ext2? Most floppies come formatted for DOS/Windows (mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /floppy). But, if you've got a mind to, you can format it ext2 (mke2fs -c /dev/fd0 1440). > Mind you, when I tried this again - I got the same errors, but the floppy > did engage! Well, /dev/fd0 should be the correct device. Those specific ones shouldn't be needed unless you've got a specially formatted diskette. Besides, you were apparently trying to mount the second floppy drive (fd1). Does anybody even have two floppy computers anymore? > Baby steps indeed..... Nah! You'll be leaping tall buildings in no time! If you decide to use vfat for your floppies, you can add a line to /etc/fstab for mounting. /dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,noauto,rw,user,unhide 0 0 Or replace vfat with autofs if you use it. -- ¶ One·should·only·use·the·ASCII·characterset·when·compos » ing·email·messages.
