Why am I having problems of mounting a Floppy

mickeyboa · 03-20-2007, 03:02 PM

FC 6 dell laptop with a installed Floppy
I can't read a floppy disk, number of different disks.
Does /etc/fstab have to have /dev/fd0 settings.

Jim

b0uncer · 03-20-2007, 03:07 PM

If you don't have a line in fstab, this should do:

Code:

mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /media/floppy

given that the floppy is formatted with FAT filesystem and that /media/floppy directory exists. If you have a working fstab line, this should do:

Code:

mount /media/floppy

given that the mountpoint is defined to be /media/floppy.

What kind of error do you get?

EDIT: an fstab line could be something like this, for example:

Code:

/dev/fd0 /media/floppy vfat defaults 0 0