[bmbost]

I would like to know how you can make a floppy drive open both vfat (or msdos) and ext2 floppy disks. Can anyone help me with this?

[MikeV]

Assuming you're in Linux and not windows, this isn't a problem.

All you have to do is mount the floppy drive and specify the filesystem you want it to use. man mount will help, as I don't remember the syntax exactly.

As far as reading an ext2 floppy in Win, forget it. Won't happen.

M

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[bmbost]

Actually, I was wondering how you would put it in your fstab file. But anyway, thanks for that little bit of output. I have RedHat 6.1, and needed to get to a couple of my DOS disk (I have a dual boot system with win95). I thought there was some way you could change the type column in the fstab file so it would mount it right, but I guess not. I have KDE as my wm, so I'm not too familiar with GNOME. I've used it before, but I really didn't like the feel of it.

[MikeV]

Well, glad I could (not really) help

Have you tried the man page for fstab? Just a shot in the dark, since most of the man pages aren't too helpful.

M

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It is easier to get forgiveness than it is to get permission.

Lewis' Law: People will buy anything that's one to a customer...

Hurewitz's Memory Principle: The chance of forgetting something is directly proportional to... to... uh.....

[bmbost]

Thanks, that tip helped me in the right direction. I found out that I only had to put auto in the type column of the fstab file. I don't know why I didn't think of that earlier. Thanks! =D