mounting floppy drive
 

Hi,

I am trying to mount the floppy drive. First time I tried this, it worked. In the KDE files/folder window I went to the specific folder to mount to, right clicked > create new > floppy drive.

then in the dialog box I chose /dev/fd0 from the 3 options in the device tab.

Now it doesn't work, the option /dev/fd0 doesn't appear anymore as an option in the device tab (only /dev/hda7()swap and /dev/cdrom(/mnt/cdrom)). From the command line I tried:

mount /def/fd0 ~/mnt/floppy

received this message:

/dev/fd0: Input/output error
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

What is going wrong? Did I damage or remove something?

Thanks,

Ron

If you try to mount a drive from the command line using the mount command, you need to specify the filesystem type. For example, to mount a floppy you formatted in linux, you would type:

You can also use -t auto if you're not sure of the filesystem type on the floppy.

man mount will give you all of the details.

j.

That depends on the distro on Slack you don't have to specify fs type...
Also you have to be root to mount drive/floppy, from the command line/shell prompt

Check you KDE start menu there is probly a floppy tool there

mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

returns:

mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or too many mounted file systems

???

Pickledbeans, except for some formatting tools I can't find anything about mounting floppy's in the KDE start menu

Ron

safra,

Was the floppy formatted with the ext2 filesystem? If not, then I can see how the mount command used would fail. Try the -t auto option. If you're using Slackware, then, like pickledbeans wrote, you shouldn't need to specify a filesystem type.

Also, make sure you're root when you try to mount the floppy.

j.

I am having similar problems in Red Hat 7.3.

I can use 'fdformat /dev/fd0' and then try to mount the floppy I just formatted* and I get the same above errors no matter what kind of file type I submit, ext2, ext3. Doesn't matter. I get the same error response,

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

If I use 'auto' as file system type, I get the error response,

'mount: you must specify the filesystem type'

*mount -t <fs type> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

I dont think fdformat actually formats your floppy.
try:
fdformat /dev/fd0
then:
mkfs.ext2 /dev/fd0 #ext2 filesystem
or
mkfs.vfat /dev/fd0 #Vfat(dos) Filesystem

then try to mount:
mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
or
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

Oh BTW: dont be in the /mnt/floppy directory when trying to mount a floppy.

That did it.

It is amazing that the process is so complicated. Only in Linux would it take you a good part of a day to figure out how to make a floppy disk. And not a clue in my Linux Nutshell book.

What's worse is that I thought I had made a boot disk and I hadn't and now I need it.

uname -r to get kernel version
mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.4.18-10 (or whatever your kernel ver is)

http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/redhat/....3-1.i386.html