Re: [Nolug] Flash memory access, lack thereof

From: John D. Tiedeman <jdtiede_at_sstar.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 16:23:00 -0500
Message-ID: <40C62E34.80406@sstar.com>

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  
  

It's related, as I think the applicable line does sometimes disappear from fstab, and then I get the message "no mount point /mnt/flash." However, when the line IS present, I get "not a valid block device (using "/dev/sda1  /mnt/flash  vfat user,noauto,umask=0   0 0). It is USB, therefore the sda1.

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

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Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>

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