Re: [SLUG] Re: Print from Simply Mepis

From: Logan Tygart (thelogan@allyourbase-arebelongto.us)
Date: Sat Sep 04 2004 - 08:45:02 EDT


On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 08:08, Eric Jahn wrote:
> On Saturday 04 September 2004 04:13 am, Pete Theisen wrote:
> > root@2[Pete]# mount /dev/floppy
> > mount: /dev/floppy already mounted or /mnt/floppy busy
> > mount: according to mtab, /dev/sda is already mounted on /mnt/floppy
> > root@2[Pete]# cp
> > /home/Pete/Desktop/z32_eng_us-1.0-5.tgz (replace with mnt)->/mount/floppy/z32_eng_us-1.0-5.tgz
>
> Pete, you need to put a space before the /mnt/floppy part. Also, don't type
> the full word "mount" there; it's just "mnt". Everything else looks good.
> Please retry this command and repost. We'll get there.
>
> Anybody watching this thread: why would /dev/sda be mounting at /mnt/floppy
> when his fstab file specifically tells /dev/floppy to mount there?
<snip>

I would see what ls -la /dev/floppy and ls -la /dev/sda yields. Along
with trying umount /mnt/floppy. Maybe he whipped a disk out with out
umounting it.

The Logan

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