On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 12:31:51AM -0700, CW Harris wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 02:04:50AM -0500, Lorenzo Prince wrote: > > I am trying to mount an MS-DOS floppy disk. I get the following error message: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mount /floppy > > mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > > > Here is the relevant info from /etc/fstab: > > > > /dev/fd0 /floppy auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 > > > > But wait... It gets better! > > > > Now, if I run > > > > mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy > > > > as root and then unmount it and rerun > > > > mount /floppy > > > > from my normal user account, it seems to solve the problem, at least for a short > > time. > > Strange. I guess because the (vfat,msdos?) module is loaded it will try > that type as a normal user? I am guessing that msdos is a loadable > kernel module. > > Anyway, I think what you want is to put "vfat" or "msdos" into > /etc/filesystems, this will cause the mount to try these additional > types on a mount of an "auto" type. (man mount, search for > /etc/filesystems). Note vfat is the windows format with long filename > support. > [snip]
I'm curious about this advice. I'm running Sarge. I don't find a file /etc/filesystems on my computer. Is there a package that I failed to install? Which one? -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
