Floppy Mount Problems
 

I looked around for an answer to this and didn't see anything like what's happening on mine.

I'm not able to mount my floppy.

When I type:
mount /mnt/floppy

I get the message:
mount: can't find /mnt/floppy in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

When I type:
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

I get the message:
mount: mount point /mnt/floppy does not exist

Looking in /etc/fstab, there is no entry for /dev/fd0 with a related /mnt/floppy. Should I put one in? If so, with what parameters? Or should this be populated by Linux? I'm running RH8.

I have been looking in my book (:)) about detecting hardware, and it says file /etc/syscofig/hwconf stores the information from kudzu regarding my hardware. When looking in that file, it does have a floppy paragraph. It says:
class: FLOPPY
bus: MISC
detached: 1
device: fd0
driver: unknown
desc: "3.5" 1.44MB floppy drive"

Do I maybe need to install a driver? I'm not sure what I need to do to get the floppy to mount.

Thanks.

Mandrake does it this way. Put this in your /etc/fstab and see how you go.

/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy supermount fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0

make sure the /mnt/floppy path exists. All users should be able to access the floppy.

Curious as to why RH didn't create a mount point and a fstab entry for it. You will need to create a directory called /mnt/floppy and an entry for your /etc/fstab. The above should work but leave out the supermount.

Thanks for the replies.
Being new to this, I'm not sure what each column is. I did add the /mnt/floppy directory, and am trying to add the entry in /etc/fstab. However, not knowing what is supposed to go there is preventing me from knowing exactly what to put.

I put in the exact statement
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy supermount fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0

However, I don't know if the commas go in or not. Also, after putting that in completely, it did say supermount not supported by kernal. Taking that out, it told me fs type unmask=0 not supported by kernel.

I don't know what else to put in or take out. Any reference to an explination of the meaning of the entires and columns would be greatly appreciated. :)

I don't know why RH didn't put this in when I installed... maybe I missed a setting.

Thanks.

Try pasting the following,

Okay I inserted that line.

The response I get is:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or too many mounted file systems.

:(

I have checked the floppy on my Win98 machine, formated it, put one file on, and it checked out clean.

Thanks.

Have you tried it as root?

Everything I've done is as root. I don't think I could change those files if I were not root.

Ok, give me as much info about your floppy drive as you can, type, connection etc....

Okay.. I'll have to look all this up and get back to you. :) I got ftp working... internal to my network only, so the floppy is not top priority anymore. :)

Now, this won't help your floppy question; but, why do you need a floppy drive? None of my three linux servers, nor my windows or mac have a floppy in them. I hate sneakernet