Hi,

I was not able to mount the floopy drive and cdrom.The bios was able to detect both the hardware.

I just plugged in both the cdrom and floopy to the box and trying to run the command :

1.)mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floopy

Error message :

mount : You must specify the system type

2.) mount /mnt/cdrom

Error message :

Mount : Can't find /mnt/cdrom in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab


I have tried to manually add it the entry to the /etc/fstab and mount again but no avail :

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

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



Please advise.

for the floppy you can try

mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

for cdrom you could try

mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom

what is kudzu?

Hi ,

Thanks for the guides :

Still no luck :

For the floopy :

mount : mount point /mnt/floopy does not exist

I then manually create the floopy directory under /mnt and it returns :

mount : /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device

The same error happens to cdrom .Thanks.

Kudzu : http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/kudzu.8.html

hmm... does /var/log/messages give you any hint as to what is going wrong? the hardware isn't anything real exotic that might cause you to have to configure specific drivers are they? these are standard ide devices?

(kudzu looks pretty cool, you running a server w/ hotswap?)

jpbarto

1) are you using devfs?

2) Did you link the actual hardware device to a special file?

IDE 0 has two possible devices, master and slave--which correspond to /dev/hda and /dev/hdb in Linux. If you were to add a CDrom as slave to the IDE 0 cable, you have to link /dev/hdb to /dev/cdrom (If special file /dev/cdrom was present, otherwise you have to use mknod with major and minor numbers and all that jazz to create one.)

3) Did you set up a directory for a mount point?

Generally, most people put a /mnt directory in root and corresponding directories for each device and or partition they are mounting in /etc/fstab.

4) Did you check the devices by using a win98 boot disk? (The quickest and surest way to check cables and bios settings is mister boot disk. If it doesn't boot, you have a problem.)

5) Is this the first time the computer has had a floppy and CDROM? Or are these replacements? Linux does not auto magically remove old hardware.

Whoops! The "Generally" sentence should read: /mnt directory in root ("/") the corresponding mount point within /mnt (like /mnt/cdrom) and an entry in /etc/fstab. Which makes the command "mount cdrom" possible.