On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 01:50:19PM +0100, Matthew Roberts wrote:
> > /dev/fd0/media/floppy0 autorw,user,noauto 0 0
> instead of "auto" change to "vfat" on your fstab.
>
> But this is only ok if all floppies are vfat's, isn't it? are they?
>
You can create different fstab entri
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 11:20:37AM -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
> On 2005-05-05, Roberto C. Sanchez penned:
> >
> > Yes. The more correct solution is make sure that the vfat, fat and msdos
> > (since floppies are actually msdos, not vfat) modules are loaded into your
> > kernel on boot (this ca
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 12:23:57PM +0100, Matthew Roberts wrote:
[...]
> After a reboot, I can't mount a floppy as a normal user:
>
> $mount /media/floppy
> mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified
>
> Even though I have this line in /etc/fstab:
>
> /dev/fd0
On 2005-05-05, Roberto C. Sanchez penned:
>
> Yes. The more correct solution is make sure that the vfat, fat and msdos
> (since floppies are actually msdos, not vfat) modules are loaded into your
> kernel on boot (this can be done by adding them as lines into /etc/modules).
> Thing is, if the kern
So mounting the floppy as root and specifying the type, silently loads
the module, which stays loaded afterwards?
The light dawns...! thank you!
Quoting Matthew Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > /dev/fd0/media/floppy0 autorw,user,noauto 0 0
> instead of "auto" change to "vfat" on your fstab.
>
> But this is only ok if all floppies are vfat's, isn't it? are they?
>
>
Yes. The more correct solution is make sure that t
Do you have any idea about why specifying the type (as root) enables
subsequent use by normal users? I'm really interested in knowing the
cause; the solution is welcome, but the problem is hardly critical!.
> /dev/fd0/media/floppy0 autorw,user,noauto 0 0
instead of "auto" change to "vfat" on your fstab.
But this is only ok if all floppies are vfat's, isn't it? are they?
> /dev/fd0/media/floppy0 autorw,user,noauto 0 0
instead of "auto" change to "vfat" on your fstab.
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On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 12:23:57PM +0100, Matthew Roberts wrote:
> Hi, I don't know if this a sarge (or Debian) specific issue. If not
> please accept my apologies for posting it
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