Mount: Special Device /def/fd0 Error

[sdsurfer]

Hi all im new to this whole linux thing and i just installed 'Navyn OS' on my side computer.

Everything seems ok, till i get this:
*Starting local...
mount: special device /dev/fd0 does not exist
*failed to start loca.

*Error: Problem starting needed service.
* "splash" was not started.

then it all like: This is localhost.(none) (linux i686 2.6.9-gentoo-r9) 19:02:57
and i can log in, but i dont know how to fix whatever this problem is.

i also noticed a thing in red when the computer was starting up saying: "you need to set /etc/hostname to a valid hostname"

im not sure if that is the cause of this problem.

I had read that maybe it was my fstab file, which i figured out how to view but have no idea how to edit it. here is what it is set to:
/dev/hda1 / ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdrooms/cdrom0/mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto, users,ro 0 0
#/dev/cdrooms/cdrom0/mnt/dvdrom udf noauto, users,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto, users 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs / tmpfs defaults 0 0

Any help on this problem will be greatly appreciated. thank you

[Dachnaz]

Do you have a floppy drive on your computer? Sounds like it's looking for one that physically isn't there. You can use a program like vi, vim, emacs, or nano to edit the file, like so:

vi /etc/fstab
vim /etc/fstab
emacs /etc/fstab
nano -w /etc/fstab

One of those is bound to work. If I were you, I'd just take out the entire line about /dev/fd0. A wierd thing I noted about your fstab file is that normally one would see something like /dev/fda0 instead of just /dev/fd0. Looks like some of the spacing is out of whack. Just make sure every different category in your fstab is spaced properly, etc etc.

[genesus]

/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto, users 0 0

take the "auto" out of this line, reboot, simple as that...

[Dachnaz]

[quote="genesus"]take the "auto" out of this line, reboot, simple as that.../quote]

Taking that out will make it unable to mount if the drive does exist... That option is under the filesystem column, and the argument 'auto' will have the Linux system try to automatically detect the file system. It's useful for floppies and other ejectable media. This 'auto' has nothing to do with mount options. 'noauto' makes the device not be automatically mount at boot, when it would be normally. There's no such argument as 'auto' in this column.

[sdsurfer]

ok i changed the fstab table to:
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy noauto noauto, users 0 0

and i got this error instead:
mount: fs type noauto not supported by kernel

anything?

[genesus]

****...didn't see the simple type, do this instead

/dev/fd0     /mnt/floppy     auto     noauto     0 0

Now if you can manaully mount it with this, then you can add the user option, not users...

/dev/fd0     /mnt/floppy     auto     noauto,user     0 0

This way a normal user will be able to mount the disk...p.s. remember there is only a comma with no space between noauto and user

fstab howto
/device     /mountdirectory     fstype     option1,option2,etc   0 0
the last two 0s are dump variables, read up before changing them

[puntmuts]

To see if you have a floppy drive and that is supported in your kernel type:

 dmesg | grep fd

Amongst other info a line like:

Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M

will appear.

[sdsurfer]

dudes sorry i didnt get back to you sooner. I got this crazy cold and then have been doen massive finals.

so yeah i tryed that code and i get this new message now:

mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device

AKA: thats what you get for not turning me on in like 2 weeks

anything?