Re: FC6 and floppy mounting

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
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[root@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@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@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
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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