man with this slackware you have to configure almost everything... good way to learn though!

at any rate, in /etc/fstab i have put in the entry for my floppy drive:

/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 noauto 0 0

now, when i do:

>mount /dev/fd0

no matter what the file system is i ALWAYS get a wrong fs type and the like merror message...

so i had 2 choices: 1- change ext2 in etc/fstab to vfat or 2- >mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

how can i fix this? or is the entry correct to put floppy as vfat in etc/fstab?

i wouldnt think that the latter is correct because of a sample /etc/fstab file in a redhat book I saw had ext2

either way, someone gimme a hand!

thx

i noticed in your post when you said you mounted with the command

# mount /dev/fd0

you are putting where you want to mount the floppy right like with

# mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

when you mount.. it needs a directory to read from.

right , right

youre right... you can put a destination mounting directory at the end of the command, still, you can also mount the device without if in your etc/fstab file you enter the mount point.

however, that aside, what i was running into was the fact that either way i mounted the floppy drive i would always get wrong fs type (even on boot floopies that i KNEW were ext2 file systems) unless i entered vfat or put "vfat" in the fstab file

thx

are you specifying when mounting the file type then... like a msdos would be:

# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0...... etc...

no, i think your missing what im saying...

what im saying is that i would like to mount the floppy that has my linux stuff on it...

do i need to manually enter ext2 or vfat in fstab

here is what my fstab looks like:

/dev/hdb /mnt/ls120.0 auto noauto, owner, kudzu 0 0

I think when your referring to the filesystem, instead of specifying a certain one, just add auto instead.
I use a Superdisk LS120 as you can tell, yours should look something like this in fstab:

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

then you should just be able to issue the command
# mount /dev/fd0
or of course
# mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy