On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 19:15 +0100, Alec Melling wrote: > Knowing that the wheels of this list grind exceedingly slowly these days. It > was suggested to me to try editing fstab and putting a return in at the end > of the last line. > > Of course this worked, but I still don't know why this would be important? > I don't know off had but it looks like each line must be terminated with a CR so adding a list blank line clears that requirement. Probably something to do with the way mount parses the file. > Secondly I am now getting an error message that reads: > > 'Mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified' > You could try changing the "auto" in the fstab line for the floppy to "vfat" assuming that the floppy is formatted for dos/windows. You may also want to have a look at mtools, I think there is an mformat command there to add a dos filesystem to the disk. If not then "mkfs -t ext2 /dev/fd0" would make a linux filesystem on the disk but you won't be able to read it on anything but a linux box. Hope thats of some help. john
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