The ready formatted floppy is normally for dos/win, and if I want to put ext2 (or any other file system) I have to format it. I dont think only formatted floppy (without file system are available) Regards, Mukund Deshmukh Beta Computronics Pvt. Ltd. Web site - http://betacomp.com
-----Original Message----- From: Kingsly John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: LINUX INDIA HELP LIST <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, March 16, 2002 8:22 PM Subject: Re: [LIH] Floppy mounting >On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, mukund wrote: > > |>Your floppy disk is not formatted as an ext2 file > |>system. You must first format it using mke2fs > |>/dev/fd0 or you can just simply mount it using mount > |>/mnt/floppy without even formatting it. It > |>automatically gets mounted. > | > | > |'Linux' is not GOD, How do you expect mount to mount an unformatted > |floppy. Mount can auto detect the file system, but not if there is no > |file system. > >Do we still get unformatted floppies ?? The last time I saw one must have >been atleast 10 years ago. > >Kingsly > > >_______________________________________________ >linux-india-help mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help > _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
