Re: [Nolug] mount fd0

Scott Harney said the following on 07/23/2004 11:58 AM:
> Jay Latham wrote:
>
>> Chris Reames said the following on 07/23/2004 11:36 AM:
>>
>>> Also, look for the simple explanation.
>>> Was a floppy already mounted and removed without being unmounted?
>>>
>> I had never mounted a floppy on this computer before and running mount
>> didn't list fd0 as being mounted.
>> To be honest this all started because I found a box of floppies I had
>> forgotten about and I decided to see how the floppy formatter in kde
>> worked. Like Scott I tend to use the c/l instead of gui tools so this
>> was just for fun until I ran into this problem.
>>
>> I don't know that much about reiserfs and was wondering if this could
>> be the problem. I usually use ext2 when doing a install but reiserfs
>> was the default on Slack 10 and I was feeling lazy ;-)
>
>
>
> hmm. is your system all reiserfs? Maybe slack didn't install ext2
> support into the kernel. Or maybe it's available as a module. If it
> is, it should autoload, but perhaps "modprobe ext2" prior to your mount
> attempts will help.
>
>
>
That was the problem. It never occured to me that any distro would not
include support for ext2. Probably because all my partitions are reiserfs.

Thanks for your help

Jay
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