Re: [Nolug] Flash memory access, lack thereof

It's pretty old -- RH 7.3. I haven't bothered to upgrade because it is
used only as a server and it works fine. If it ain't broke...
Dave Prentice
prentice@instruction.com
http://www.originsresource.org

-----Original Message-----
From: krunk <krunkalot@hotpop.com>
To: nolug@joeykelly.net <nolug@joeykelly.net>
Date: Friday, June 04, 2004 10:32 AM
Subject: 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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