I certainly DONT know the answer but DOS and ext2 are different filesystems. I would think that you would need two mount points like /mnt/dosfloppy with a matching fstab entry AND a /mnt/ext2floppy with a matching fstab. NEITHER of which would mount on boot.
Good luck ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Gough" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 3:13 PM Subject: [expert] floppy access in 8.1 > Is it just me, or is floppy disk usage under Linux an unadulterated pain in > the ass? I'm really not a newbie, but I can't get it done. I've formatted it > with Gnome Floppy, with a Linux Native (ext2) file system. It formats > successfully, and then I try to mount it as follows: mount /mnt/floppy and I > get this message: > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or too many > mounted file systems. > > I've run mke2fs on it, to make sure that the disk has the correct file > system. That seems to work. I've checked my fstab file, and the floppy entry > looks like this: > > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto > user,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 > > I don't know alot about this, but from what I've read, this seems like a > perfectly valid fstab entry for my floppy drive. > The drive works properly under Windows, and in fact, it seems that I have > this problem with numerous different Linux computers. I must be doing > something wrong, and I won't be surprised if it's simple and obvious, but I > can't figure it out. Please help. > > Doug Gough > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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