Re: argh! linux and floppies



Zbigniew Wiech wrote:
" * * * but instead are given the following lecture: "mount: i could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified". The answer, of course, is,
"it's a floppy, you stupid machine.

"Floppy" is not the name of a file system, and more than one file system
has been used on floppies.

Mike
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