munt and unmount floppy
Im a true blue newbie, usng mandrake 9.1
I wanted to take a file off floppy and was told to mount it, I have done this millions of times and yte still cant access my files on floppy... i cant cd /mnt/floppy says: input/output error type: mount /dev/fd0 /mnt mount -t fat /dev/fd0 /mnt type: mount /dev/fd0 /mnt ah I dont know and many other various mount commands but i cant see anything on my floppy.. get messages like: input/output error block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: you must specify the filesystem type I right clicked my floppy icon on my desktop and had the option to unmount so I clicked it and said unmount: it seeems /mnt/floppy is mounted multiple times,,, what do I do please ? All I want to do is get a pppoe rpm i put on floppy off it onto linux box so I can set net up on it.. |
Floppy has to be inserted for mount to work. Thats the only thing i can think of. you do not come off as a person who would not insert a floppy before you try to mount it, so you might want to consider that your floppydrive died.
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mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
try that. |
bad superblock on /dev/fd0 or too many mounted file systems
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normally, you should not need to manually mount a floppy in mandrake - that's taken care of by supermount.
I would first reboot (so that the system is in a clean state) and then put in a floppy and see if you can see the contents of your floppy when you go into the floppy directory by cd /mnt/floppy and then ls |
If i am not wrong in Mandrake, there is something call automount when you boot up your system. So there is no need to mount your floppy or your cdrom. It is already mounted.
You would only need to mount your other partition with different file system. just type cd /mnt/floppy and you go there. If not try this: mount /mnt/floppy |
Re: munt and unmount floppy
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mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt Code:
man mount |
Hi,
I don't know how it works in MDK, but make sure that you have write access to the mount point when floppy is u(n)mounted. |
thanx for the help guys, I had to unplug floppy and plug it back in and works now :)
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good luck with your MDK
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