You are probably trying to mount a DOS formatted
floppy. I don't remember the exact syntax for mounting a DOS floppy (It'll be in
any good Linux book), but it is something like "mount -t vfat
/dev/fd0".
I'm sure someone here will correct the syntax, but I'd
bet that's the issue. (Once mounted, you can format it with the Linux file
system)
-----Original Message-----Greetings all,
From: Nyal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 9:23 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Newbie Question:Floppy Drives
I've got another newbie question I hope someone can help me with. What I'm trying to do is to mount a floppy disk. When I've tried, I gotten many different responses including:
can't find /dev/fd0, only root can do that, something about having "too many" devices mounted and something about a "bad super block". I've tried variations of the following:
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy with no success.
Does anyone have any suggestions?? I REALLY need to transfer some .gif's and .jpg's from my windows box to this one.BTW, if it helps I'm using RH 6.1 (and so far I'm real happy with it!)
-- In Solidarity, Nyal R Cammack Shop Steward/Organizing Committee Member/Auditor/WebMaster IAM&AW Local Lodge W246 Springfield, OR http://www.efn.org/~ncammack/w246.htm
