On 9/13/02 4:35 AM, "Mike Burger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I do stand corrected, to a point, on the "mount /mnt/floppy" thing from > earlier...with the fstab entry, if the floppy was ext2 formatted, it > should have worked. > > However, as I pointed out below, if the floppy is DOS formatted, you need > to specify the full command, with file system type. > > On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Mike Burger wrote: > >> You can ignore what fstab says, in this case, since the floppy isn't >> mounted. >> >> "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. >> >> If the floppy is an ext2 formatted floppy, then "mount /dev/fd0 >> /mnt/floppy" should work just fine (assuming that the directory >> /mnt/floppy exists. >> >> As to the file types, this comes directly from "man mount": >> >> -t vfstype >> The argument following the -t is used to indicate >> the file system type. The file system types which >> are currently supported are: adfs, affs, autofs, >> coda, coherent, cramfs, devpts, efs, ext, ext2, >> hfs, hpfs, iso9660, minix, msdos, ncpfs, nfs, ntfs, >> proc, qnx4, romfs, smbfs, sysv, udf, ufs, umsdos, >> vfat, xenix, xfs, xiafs. Note that coherent, sysv >> and xenix are equivalent and that xenix and coher >> ent will be removed at some point in the future -- >> use sysv instead. Since kernel version 2.1.21 the >> types ext and xiafs do not exist anymore. >> >> So, if the floppy is a dos formatted floppy, you should use either: >> >> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy >> >> or >> >> mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy >> >> On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Linux wrote: >> >>> Hi >>> >>> I was introduced to Linux at RH7.0 level and are struggling to understand >>> why I cannot mount a floppy on a RH6.1 system I came across yesterday. >>> >>> I've used the command mount /mnt/floppy and mount /dev/fd0 but these spew >>> out that extra command s are needed and the msdos format on the floppy is >>> not recognised >>> >>> The /etc/fstab describes the floppy as ext2 I heard there are problems installing oracle on RH7.1 but how about RH7.3? Thanks -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
