lol, yes, I like the stability of linux. I'm sorry for all the questions, but when I try to mount my floppy, it doesn't work, says it can't open, and a few other errors. now, I'm off to find cmos immages for bochs. whee :) Thanks, Tyler Littlefield Unlimited horizons head coder. check out our website: tysplace.homelinux.net msn: compgeek134 at hotmail.com aim: st8amnd2005 skype: st8amnd127 ----- Original Message ----- From: Doug Sutherland <doug@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 9:25 PM Subject: Re: slightly o-t, looking for os help > The mount command usually requires both a device name > and mount point unless the device name is listed in your > /etc/fstab. Look there for the floppy drive info, mine is: > > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0 > > To mount this in the fully qualified way would be: > mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy > > Note that the file system type is set to auto in /etc/fstab. > It should automagically determine the file system type. > And since it's in fstab, I can also do just > > mount /mnt/floppy > > Same is true for cdrom and any other mount point, > if they are defined properly in /etc/fstab you can > simply mount the mount name and skip the device. > This assumes that the device exists and there is > proper media inserted etc. > > For more info on mounting > http://www.alwanza.com/howto/linux/floppy.html > http://home.ubalt.edu/abento/linux/terminal/mount.html > http://www.itc.virginia.edu/desktop/linux/mount.html > > also commands > man mount > man umount > man fstab > > And the dosfstools docs for formatting and such > http://www.fifi.org/doc/dosfstools/ > > I appreciate linux more and more every day, even > still, started with redhat 5 almost 10 years ago, it > gets better all the time. My system is dare I say > more stable than windows will ever be. > > -- Doug > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
