What is your mount point for floppy? Is it /mnt/floppy?
If it is, try mount /mnt/floppy and see if that'll work. Then you should be
able to view the contents:
cd /mnt/floppy
ls-l
Then you'll be able to open a text file using a text editor once you've
idenified the appropriate file.
HTH,
Mike
"Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting,
killing, and dreadful idolatry took place there."
--Baltasar Rusow, Estonia, mid 16th century
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Glenn Williams
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 12:42 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Can't read floppy disk
Hi, Group:
I am ashamed to display my ignorance by asking this, but I don't know
what else to try, or where else to look.
I have the SuSE 7.2 Personal Edition boot disk created during the
installation, in drive a:. I want to take a look at the lilo file on
the disk. I tried to mount it (as both root and mere mortal, even
though fstab shows it user-mountable) using the command:
mount -a /media/floppy
It isn't being mounted; /etc/mtab doesn't list it. I've also tried
mounting it as file type ext2, msdos and vfat, even though that
shopuldn't be required since the fstab entry shows 'auto' fs type. If
I understand the mount man pages correctly, it may be mounted by
referring to the device *or* the mount point shown in /etc/fstab; I've
alternately tried /dev/fd0 and /media/floppy in the mount command,
without success.
Here's a look at its /etc/fstab entry:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------
I can't read it under Windows; it says it is an unformatted disk.
Also, I don't understand why it was set up as read-only in fstab during
the installation.
Anyone?
Regards,
--
Glenn Williams - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered Linux User # 135678
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