hmmm, a "cat /etc/fstab|grep fd0" on my RH7.1 box at work yields /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
unfortunatly i am not allowed to use floppy disks at work so i cannot actually verify if it works on a windblows formatted floppy or not. but i suppose it will work with a floppy with a FAT filesystem. Thank You, Regards mario MadMax99 wrote: > > 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 > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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