Why can't I mount a floppy!?
 

I'm in a bind... and I only have 2 disks.

Neither of which are working.


I open terminals blah blah try things like
It tries, and says "must specify filesystem type".
No matter what I do it says something about filesystem type...

For the life of me, I need the floppy working.. and now =(.


Help, and thank you in advance!

And it says that rightfully, too :)

Unless you define in
/etc/fstab
something like
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
it will ask for the filesystem.

If you give that line, you can just use
mount /mnt/floppy


Cheers,
Tink

How exactly do you do that :)

BTW- Thank you

Open /etc/fstab in your favourite text-editor (not
word-processor) and add the line :) by either
typing it or copy and pasting ...


Cheers,
Tink

That's what common sense told me to do... but it won't let me overwrite the file.

Won't let me save either.. says to make sure I have write permissions...

I'm on root priveledges too... =/

well a temporary solution would be:
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

I don't know about that permission problem other than to try :wq!

[root@x1-6-00-e0-6f-3c-94-69 plex]# mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
mount: mount point /mnt/floppy does not exist

then try:
mkdir /mnt/floppy
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy


You don't have to do the mkdir command again after the first time ;)

So what distribution are you running?

[root@x1-6-00-e0-6f-3c-94-69 plex]# mkdir /mnt/floppy
[root@x1-6-00-e0-6f-3c-94-69 plex]# mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device

Something new everytime....

RH9

o.O

Ya got me there. It only says that when theres not a floppy in there... I guess the device could be wrong. Try typing
df -h
and post the results

IF there is a floppy in the drive - and IF the file /dev/fd0 exists (ls -al /dev/fd0) it could well be that the floppy probably is not formatted (has no filesysten on it) and can therefore not be mounted, of course!