Can't mount floppy

[Medic193]

I think that is the proper terminology at least. I'm trying to re-install G@H. I'm in the genome directory that I created, but when I type mount/mnt/floppy it tells me "no such file or directory" The floppy is working fine BTW. Any ideas?

[dnar]

It should be "mount /mnt/floppy" note the space after "mount". You may require "root" or "su" login to mount, it depends on your setup.





In "/etc/fstab":


/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0




Also, do a "ls /mnt" is there a floppy directory?:

[wayne@Criten log]$ ls -l /mnt

total 3

drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 1024 Oct 10 1998 cdrom

drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 1024 Jun 19 22:54 cdwriter

drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 1024 Jun 5 17:27 floppy

[Medic193]

Ahhh that stupid space. Always forget those thingees. Thanks again. Hey dnar if you want a big head here ya go. I cut and paste most of your linux messages into word for later reference. In a couple months I'll be able to publish a book. :D


Here's another quicky that was kind of confusing. My system was running fine after I upgraded the processor. I thought the overclocking toasted it but it was the network card. After hours of trouble shooting I was able to narrow it down to the NIC. I should've done this quicker from what I saw on the message, but I'm a little slow still in linux. Here's the message:

On boot up I would get this message scrolling infinitley

eth0 : (######) System Error Occured ( I thought this had said speed error before, I might be wrong) The #'s would increase with each one, going into the thousands

I would also see this:

Checking root file system
-was not cleanly unmounted
check for ? (can't remember the last word)

I took out the NIC and replced it with another and it works fine now. The first NIC was working also until last night.

[dnar]

Sounds like an IRQ clash m8.







Book: LOL! :D Just remeber to send me a signed copy! :D

[MechCD]

Checking root file system
-was not cleanly unmounted
check for ? (can't remember the last word)

Sounds like / wasn't unmounted properly, are you going to Restart or halt, and not just loggin out and shutting it off?

[Medic193]

I would get that after a clean install and then the boot. If I kept the old NIC in it would just keep doing weird stuff. So many errors I didn't list them all. Once I put in the new NIC it worked fine. Not sure what the deal is since it worked fine before.