FC6 and floppy mounting

[Antonio Olivares]

--- azeem ahmad <azeem81 at msn.com> wrote:

> amazingly enough  i am unable to mount a floppy disk
> in FC6
> 
> here is the output of commands
>
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> 
> [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
>
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> 
> can anyone out there guide me how to mount a floppy
> in FC6
> 
> Regards
> Azeem
> 
>
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Azeem,

  Maybe the disk is damaged.  However it you have
tried opening it on windows and it works then you have
a point.

Have you tried 
$ gnome-mount -d /dev/fd0 ?

Is the disk formated to dos(vfat), Mac, ?

Regards,

Antonio 


 
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