G'day

I'm trying to mount a floppy disk with some files copied onto by windows XP. Tried:
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mt/floppy/
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mt/floppy/

Thinking there might be something screwy with the format, i looked around for a linux formatting command. after some googling, i found floppy. But that doesn't seem to be installed (running 'floppy' returns bad command or filename), and man and info dont know anything about it. So...i'm thinking floppy disk support wasn't complied in or something...


Any ideas ?


edit, forgot the error messages, here it is straight from the console:


root@pingu : /rootroot@pingu:/etc# mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: /dev/fd0: can't read superblock
root@pingu : /rootroot@pingu:/etc# mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mt/floppy/
mount: mount point /mt/floppy/ does not exist
root@pingu : /rootroot@pingu:/etc# mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mt/floppy/
mount: mount point /mt/floppy/ does not exist
root@pingu : /rootroot@pingu:/etc#

edit again :P

I've also commented out the floppy's entry in /etc/fstab

Hi,
It has been long since I formatted floppy. My memory says that I had to specify capacity /dev/fda144 or something. At this moment, penguins around me do not have floppy drive, I will let you know names of device files next time I see them.

Happy Penguins!

It looks like you have a typo there - you've used /mt/floppy instead of /mnt/floppy and that's why you get the mount: mount point /mt/floppy/ does not exist error.

Hi,

One of my books on penguin says that device file looks something like /dev/fd0H1440 (read manual for fdformat).

Also mtools is usuful.

http://directory.fsf.org/mtools.html

Happy Penguins!

Thanks for your replies guys, yeah looks like a typo will check that went i get home. if that doesnt work, ill check out mtools.


Thank again