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Originally posted by towlie Look at the man page for mount. Find the section on loading
msdos floppies, and you should see some options allowing
longer file names.
Then use that option in your mount command or your
/etc/fstab, whichever you use.
Thank you for your reply. I don't understand what you mean though. I don't see anything on my main or man page about mount. And I'm a newbie. I don't know how to reconfig the programming in the fstab file.
I know all this can be confusing, so let me know if you
need more explanation on something.
To see the man page for mount, go to a terminal. You probably
have an icon on your desktop or down in the tool bar that
looks like an msdos window.
Open it up and you can type commands like 'man mount'
or whatever you want. (btw, you may want to gradually
begin learning more about these basic commands, look
at man pages for the following when you get a chance:
ls
cd
pwd
mv
rm
rmdir
mkdir
The mount program is different on every system, so you'll
have to look at your man page to get the correct option.
Do you manually mount the floppy every time (if you don't
know what that is then you're not)?
If you do, add the correct option from the mount man page
to your command.
Otherwise, it's probably in your /etc/fstab file. I believe that
the mount and fstab man pages have info on how to modify
this file correctly so try to read fstab man page too.
Open it up and you can type commands like 'man mount'
or whatever you want.
This is what I got after I typed in man count: username@ubuntu:~$ man count
No manual entry for count
Quote:
Do you manually mount the floppy every time (if you don't
know what that is then you're not)?
When I click the icon for the floppy, it mounts automatically.
Quote:
Otherwise, it's probably in your /etc/fstab file. I believe that
the mount and fstab man pages have info on how to modify
this file correctly so try to read fstab man page too. [/B]
I really have no idea on what you're talking about. I'm a complete newbie to this. Please speak in simple terms. Couldn't I just right click something to get the floppy to read as a dos floppy?
Probably what you need to change is in the file /etc/fstab.
If you change it, make a copy of it first so you can back
it up if something goes wrong.
I think like the 4th or 5th column is the option column,
the options in that column are listed and separated by
commas with no spaces.
Just read the mount and fstab man pages until you find
an option you think will let you get longer filenames.
Then open a text editor (you can probably find one from
your main menu, you'll have to open it as root) and change
the /etc/fstab file.
After you reboot, the changes you made will take effect.
I don't know what the exact change would be though, so
you can either back up /etc/fstab, and try some stuff out,
or, to be safer, you can wait and see if anyone else here
can tell you exactly what change to make, your call.
The floppy settings look accurate. Auto seems like it would be the best option. Maybe I'm wrong. If I put ntfs in the place of auto, do you think that'll do the trick?
Don't think ntfs would work, cuz dos floppies usually
aren't formatted with ntfs.
I think msdos is what you should put in 3rd column
in place of auto on your /dev/fd0 line.
Then to get long filenames you would have to put an option
in the 4th column.
Looked on a bsd manpage, the option was called 'longnames'.
Maybe the option on your system is similar?
On my man page for mount, if you go down far enough, you'll
see a section about file-system specific options. If your man page
has the same section, I think that's where you'd find the option,
probably in the msdos sub-section.
Originally posted by Cinematography I'm so lucky I know something about computers. Linux is NOT ready for novice / average users. Not yet.
Actually, it is ready. It is selling quite well in Sprawl*Mart, actually.
It depends on what distribution you choose. Distributions like Linspire, Mandrake/Mandriva, and Suse are extremely user-friendly. Distributions such as Slackware are less so.
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Here is what my fstab file looks like right now:
Regarding:
Code:
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
It is probably mounting the floppy as "msdos" which is FAT12/16, limiting you to 8.3 filenames. You should mount the CDs as "vfat" and you can do it either via a shell prompt (man mount, as others have indicated) or you can change the line in fstab to the following:
Code:
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 vfat rw,user,noauto 0 0
Of course, now if you put an ext, hpfs, ntfs, hfs, or any format other than fat/fat32, it won't mount the floppy automagically, but you will get LFN functionality on Windows-formatted floppies.
Regarding CDs: You need to burn CDs with the Joliet extensions. How this is done depends on the program you are using to create CDs; with k3b there is a checkbox for enabling Joliet filenames, and to extend filename limits up to 103 characters.
Oh and just a tip: there are many, many threads covering this topic already. If you had taken the time to search you'd have found the solution around 12:50 today.
Originally posted by KimVette
Oh and just a tip: there are many, many threads covering this topic already. If you had taken the time to search you'd have found the solution around 12:50 today.
You can't do a search when you don't know what you're searching for. I'm not familiar with all of the terms, and I had NO idea fstab was where these settings were.
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