Re: FC6 and floppy mounting

azeem ahmad wrote:
amazingly enough i am unable to mount a floppy disk in FC6


mount: /dev/fd0: can't read superblock
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can anyone out there guide me how to mount a floppy in FC6

It sounds like your disk is not formatted. Also, if you just want to do some operation like copy files on or off it is often easier to use the 'mtools' (mcopy, etc.) set of commands instead of mounting floppies. See 'man mtools' for more details.

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