Re: Flopy disk

[Ray Curtis <ray fred net>]

>>>>> "cl" == Claudius Li <aprentic hops cs jhu edu> writes:

cl> I already have RH 4.2 installed on one system. Now I am trying to install
cl> it on another machine which does not have a cdrom drive. Somehow I lost my
cl> install flopy so I'm trying to make a new one. Now here is the problem:
cl> When I go into control panel and try to mount my floppy drive I get the
cl> following error message:

cl> mount /dev/fd0

cl> returned the following error:

cl> mount: wrong fs type, bad superblock on /dev/fd0,
cl> or too many mounted file systems

cl> All I want to do is copy my boot image onto the disk
cl> the fstype is listed as ext2
cl> I don't think I'm using any options 
cl> the disk checks out in scandisk under dos
cl> and I only have 4 file systems mounted right now.

Try mounting it as mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt assuming it already
has a ext2 filesystem on the disk, otherwise if is a dos disk
change the type to -t msdos.

You might also consider adding a line in /etc/fstab:

/dev/fd0  /mnt/floppy   ext2   noauto,user,exec,rw 0 0

Make sure the directory /mnt/floppy exsists or change it to anything
or where you want to mount the floppy.

Then you can mount it with the simple command of:

mount /mnt/floppy

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