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Hi all,
I am using RH6.1 when i try to mount floppy i get the above mentioned error message.
/etc/fstab seems to be ok
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 user,noauto 0 0
I searched google and couldnt fix that with what i learnt there. what is the reason for getting that.
i see many people having the same prob with cdrom
Also i have another problem
when i try to mount cdrom i get no medium found.
even there i made sure there is /mnt/cdrom exists
and /etc/fstab is ok.
Also when i try to see what is going on in /var/log/messages it says permission denied.
I dont see any specific messages in there( after logging as root)about mounting cdrom or floppy. whether i am fine or have some trouble.
I don't know if Red Hat's kernel supports auto detection of file system but you could try to edit your fstab for floppy, replace ext2 with auto.
If the kernel supports it then the system will try to figure out if the disk is formated for dos or for linux.
Check to make sure that you've built the floppy drive into your kernel and not that you've loaded it as a module... I did the same thing... You'll have to recompile the kernel but that's not a hard process...
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