[ubuntu-in] Some problems on Ubuntu 7.04 /7.10and some questions

[Onkar Shinde]

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 7:51 AM, ramnarayan.k at gmail.com
<ramnarayan.k at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Have been struggling with some niggling problems (well maybe more than
> niggling) The original ubuntu is 7.04 with some partial upgrades /
> updates from 7.10.
>
> I also installed some additional packages to try and improve access to
> other file systems and some auto mount tools and what has happened is
> that vfat partitions on external USB devices like FAT32 an FAT16 file
> systems don't get mounted.
> the programs installed are automount, cdfs-src , fuseutils.
>
> There is an VFAT partition on my laptop hard disk which mounts normally.
>
> The error i get while trying to mount these external systems is
>
> "Cannot Mount Volume
>
> Unable to Mount the volume "S_disc'
>
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1, missing
> codepage or helper program or other error. In some cases useful infor is
> found in syslog - try dmesg|tail or so"
>
> then
> ram-laptop:~$ dmesg |tail
> [ 1037.760000] sdb: Mode Sense: 27 00 00 00
> [ 1037.760000] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
> [ 1037.760000]  sdb: sdb1 sdb2
> [ 1037.780000] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb
> [ 1037.780000] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
> [ 1038.236000] FAT: Unrecognized mount option "usefree" or missing value
> [ 1038.292000] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
> [ 1038.292000] EXT3 FS on sdb2, internal journal
> [ 1038.292000] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> [ 1837.152000] FAT: Unrecognized mount option "usefree" or missing value
>
> which i don't understand ??
>
> so whats this problem and how can it be resolved.
> ***
> I have not done a full upgrade from 7.04 to 7.10 because the first time
> i did it crashed the x-org and i had to reinstall 7.04 and then do only
> selective upgrades (of some packages) from 7.10. Also unable to install
> 7.10 because i have only the repository DVD's and not a boot cd / dvd.

Can you please tell us what kind of enhancements you wanted to do for
which ytou installed automount, cdfs-src , fuseutils?

By the way, AFAIK, the DVD is also bootable if you have downloaded it
from mirrors and not created one yourself.


Onkar