FC6 and floppy mounting
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Thu May 31 20:38:11 UTC 2007
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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at sbcglobal.net
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