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Old 04-18-2004, 05:04 AM   #1
jerrykuch
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Fedora Core 1 Can't Mount Floppy Drive


I installed Fedora Core 1 today (2.4.22-1.2115.nptl is the version identifier that appears on my GRUB boot screen) and am having a problem mounting floppies. The machine is dual boot with Windows, and Windows has no trouble with the drive or this particular floppy.

My /etc/fstab contains the entry:

/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto defaults 0 0

However when I try to mount the floppy with:

mount /dev/fd0

I get:

mount: you must specify the filesystem type

Trying the following:

mount -t FOO /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

with FOO equal to 'msdos' or 'fat' also fails, but with:

mount: fs type msdos not supported by kernel

Representative noise from /var/log/messages is:

modprobe: Can't locate module msdos
modprobe: Can't locate module freemsdos

Can anybody tell me what I've bungled? The other RH versions I've run (including RH8 and RH9 on this very machine) were all able to grok the floppy drive right off the bat. Has something changed in Fedora, or do I have something mangled here in either my config or my understanding?

Thanks for any pointers you can provide....
 
Old 04-18-2004, 11:58 AM   #2
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Try using

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

If that fails you may not have support for windows filesystems in your kernel, which would be very odd for a dual boot system.
 
Old 04-18-2004, 01:00 PM   #3
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Thanks for the pointer! So I tried that (mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy -t vfat) and I got:

mount: fs type vfat not supported by kernel

In /var/log/messages I get:

modprobe: Can't locate module vfat
modprobe: Can't locate module freevfat

So it does in fact appear that the kernel support is somehow missing. I've never had this happen after an install before.

For grins I looked at /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/kernel/fs and found directories and *.o files corresponding to all the filesystem types I can think of, including vfat.o in the vfat subdirectory. So it appears that modules of the correct version are around, just never getting picked up by modprobe when I try to mount.

Any idea what's botched here that's stopping those from loading? Or the lowest impact way of fixing it? I could reinstall, I'm just not terribly confident I'll get a different result, and would ultimately like to have some better understanding of how I got myself in this state, or, failing that, how to get out of it... :-)

Thanks for the pointers....
 
Old 04-19-2004, 02:55 PM   #4
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I had that happen not more than a month or so ago. I'm not sure why the installation felt it was not important to have fat32 support in the kernel. A recompile fixed it in my case.
 
  


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