Re: [Nolug] Flash memory access, lack thereof

That's the oddest thing. What distro are you using?
Did you try making fstab immutable?

james
On Jun 4, 2004, at 9:02 AM, Dave Prentice wrote:

> John,
> I don't know if this is related, but I have a similar situation in
> using a removable pcmcia drive. Each time the machine boots, it
> removes the mount directory from fstab. I solved the problem by
> copying fstab to fstab.sav and creating a script to be run each time
> before I use the drive. The script reads:
>
> /sbin/modprobe i82365
> /sbin/modprobe ds
> /sbin/modprobe pcmcia_core
> /sbin/cardmgr
> cp /etc/fstab.sav /etc/fstab
> mkdir /mnt/pcmcia
> mount /mnt/pcmcia
>
> After that it works OK until the next boot. Maybe you may need to
> create some sort of script for your problem.
> Dave Prentice
> prentice@instruction.com
> http://www.originsresource.org
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
> To: nolug@joeykelly.net <nolug@joeykelly.net>
> Date: Thursday, June 03, 2004 11:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [Nolug] Flash memory access, lack thereof
>
>
>> On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 10:25 -0500, John Tiedeman wrote:
>>> On Mon, 31 May 2004 14:25:04 -0400
>>> mah@everybody.org (Mark A. Hershberger) wrote:
>>>> "John D. Tiedeman" <jdtiede@sstar.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> On "B" I get "mount point /mnt/flash does not exist."
>>>>
>>>> Well, you need to fix that. "mkdir /mnt/flash" should do the
> job.
>>>>
>>>> Mark.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>> Yes, I know I need to fix that, but how? The line in both
> machines' fstab
>>
>> Did you try:
>> # mkdir /mnt/flash
>>
>> --
>> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
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