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/dev/fd0 doesn't exist, so, you have no regular floppy drive detected by your OS. The cause could be one of these:
The drive is not correctly attached, either the power cord or the data cable (or both) is not ok. Check your BIOS post output to check if the drive is physically being recognized by your motherboard, if affirmative. Then check the dmesg output to see if the drive is being detected by Linux.
Your kernel has no support for floppy drives. You will have to check that, and enable it if needed.
Your drive is not a standard floppy drive, then we will need more info.
As long as the device node is not created, mounting it will be impossible.
/dev/fd0 doesn't exist, so, you have no regular floppy drive detected by your OS. The cause could be one of these:
[list][*]The drive is not correctly attached, either the power cord or the data cable (or both) is not ok. Check your BIOS post output to check if the drive is physically being recognized by your motherboard, if affirmative. Then check the dmesg output to see if the drive is being detected by Linux....
Indeed--I cannot find the floppy registered anywhere...
/dev/fd0 doesn't exist, so, you have no regular floppy drive detected by your OS. The cause could be one of these:
[list][*]The drive is not correctly attached, either the power cord or the data cable (or both) is not ok. .
I purposefully left the floppy in and I reboted--the light went on and I got a message: NTLDR is missing Press any key to restart
I concluded that there was nothing wrong with the physical connection.
Once I removed the floppy from the drive I was able to restart.
By-the-way--what program recognizes all the drives and writes the fstab when the OS is being installed?
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With mtools it is possible to read floppy drives without mounting them. You can then copy the contents of the floppy onto your hard drive. There used to be a gui for this called mtoolsfm back with Etch, but this seems to not exist in Lenny (or Squeeze). However, everything you need for reading the floppy via the command line exists with mtools.
Regarding mounting it, I would suggest being more specific in your fstab file about the "type" --IE, instead of "auto", put "vfat,msdos". Here is how my fstab file looks (I'm only including the floppy mount point):
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