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Title: qmail and fstab
Post by: richard on October 02, 2000, 04:26:06 AM

Two questions:  I keep getting Internal server error when I try to access perl with formmail.   Any suggestions?


Also I want to install ssh on my e-smith, and I need to change the file system from ext2 to vfat in fstab, so it will read my floppy made in windows.  I need help!

Cheers!

Title: RE: qmail and fstab
Post by: Tim Litwiller on October 02, 2000, 04:32:18 AM

for mounting the floppy you just need a "mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy" to be able to read a windows made floppy actually I don't believe that a floppy will have a vfat format so you could use "mount -t fat ..." or "mount -t auto ..." to mount the floppy disk.

Title: RE: qmail and fstab
Post by: Charlie Brady on October 02, 2000, 06:46:42 PM

richard wrote:

> Also I want to install ssh on my e-smith, and I need to change
> the file system from ext2 to vfat in fstab, so it will read my
> floppy made in windows.  I need help!

mkdir -p /mnt/floppy
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
....
umount /mnt/floppy

But in any case you do not need to download in Windows and use floppies - just use the URL directly in rpm:

rpm -Uhv ftp://ftp.e-smith.org/...../blah.noarch.rpm

Regards

Charlie

Title: RE: qmail and fstab
Post by: Scott Smith on October 02, 2000, 08:19:44 PM

Tim Litwiller wrote:

> actually I don't believe that a floppy will have a vfat
> format so you could use "mount -t fat ..." or
> "mount -t auto ..." to mount the floppy disk.

I use floppies formatted in Win95 OSR2 and Win98 SE. I have found that if you want long filename support, you need to use vfat.