Yup...as I acknolwedged, in a later message. The perils of posting messages between 4 and 5AM. :)
"Anthony E. Greene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 13-Sep-2002/04:30 -0500, Mike Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >You can ignore what fstab says, in this case, since the floppy isn't > >mounted. > > I think you're thinking of mtab. > > >"mount /mnt/floppy" won't do any good, because /mnt/floppy is not a > >device. "mount /dev/fd0" on its own won't do any good, because you aren't > >specifying a filesystem type or a mount point. > > Actually, "mount /mnt/floppy" would work fine if there was an entry in > fstab. According to the mount man page: > > "(ii) When mounting a file system mentioned in fstab, it > suffices to give only the device, or only the mount point." > > His problem was that fstab specified an ext2 filesystem, instead of the > "auto" more commonly used for floppy drives in desktop Linux systems. > > Tony > - -- > Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]%3E> > OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D > AOL/Yahoo Messenger: TonyG05 HomePage: <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> > Linux. The choice of a GNU generation <http://www.linux.org/> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 0x6C94239D > > iD8DBQE9gbV8pCpg3WyUI50RAhr7AJ9DPKg04nkbIe4o0k9DKH+o9upBsgCfaPme > e3pz1UHobweo03kUhMVVRK8= > =ztdF > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org, or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
