Re: FC6 and floppy mounting

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 21:16 +0500, azeem ahmad wrote:
> amazingly enough  i am unable to mount a floppy disk in FC6
> 
> here is the output of commands
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> [root linux01 ~]# mount -v /dev/floppy-fd0 /media/floppy
> mount: you didn't specify a filesystem type for /dev/floppy-fd0
>        I will try all types mentioned in /etc/filesystems or 
> /proc/filesystems
> Trying hfsplus
> mount: block device /dev/floppy-fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
> mount: you didn't specify a filesystem type for /dev/floppy-fd0
>        I will try all types mentioned in /etc/filesystems or 
> /proc/filesystems
> Trying hfsplus
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> 
> [root linux01 ~]# mount -v -t vfat /dev/floppy-fd0 /media/floppy
> mount: block device /dev/floppy-fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
> mount: /dev/floppy-fd0: can't read superblock
> 
> [root linux01 ~]# mount -v -t vfat /dev/fd0 /media/floppy
> mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
> mount: /dev/fd0: can't read superblock
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> can anyone out there guide me how to mount a floppy in FC6
> 
> Regards
> Azeem
For me: mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy 
worked. What is the format of your floppy? Is it really vfat , or is
msdos?
Since it is worried about superblocks , it seems to think that your
floppy has some sort of ext2 or ext3 type format. 
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Aaron Konstam tel: (210) 656-0355 akonstam sbcglobal net