From: Niall O Broin (niall at domain linux.ie)
Date: Thu 16 Aug 2001 - 17:34:51 IST
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:49:15PM +0100, John Gay wrote:
> directory for the workstation and now I could load the module and I get:
>
> inserting floppy driver for 2.2.18
> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
>
> Now I check the device files:
>
> [ws002 /]# ls -l /dev/fd0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 8 Jul 29 13:35 /dev/fd0 -> /tmp/fd0
> [ws002 /]# ls -l /tmp/fd0
> brw-rw-rw- 1 0 0 2, 0 Aug 15 19:51 /tmp/fd0
> [ws002 /]#
>
> but when I try to mount the floppy, it still does not work?
>
> ws002 /]# mkdir /tmp/floppy
> ws002 /]# mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /tmp/floppy
> mount: Mounting /dev/fd0 on /tmp/floppy failed: No such device
This could be because you don't have vfat support in your kernel or the
mountpoint /tmp/floppy doesn't exist. However, each of these failures have
their own proper error messages, so . . .
> most of this. Obviously, until I can sucessfully mount the floppy from the
> root shell on the workstation, I certainly won't be able to get the nbd stuff
> to work.
k
Ain't necessarily so. If you can mount a floppy, you should be able to
export it via nbd. But not being able to mount it e.g. because of lack of
vfat support, doesn't mean that you won't be able to export it through nbd.
Niall
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