My guess is that that floppy was formatted as ext2, which is why windoze
can't read it. Does this work:
mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy
--- Glenn Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, Michael:
>
> No, the mount point is actually /media/floppy (see the fstab entry
> below in my original message). I could edit the fstab and change it
> to
> something more conmventional, such as /mnt/floppy, but doubt that that
>
> would change anything.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Regards,
>
> Glenn
>
> On Monday 09 July 2001 10:13 am, you wrote:
> > 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
> >
> [snip]
>
> > -----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
> >
> [snip]
>
> > 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
> >
>
> [snip]
>
> > 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,
> > --
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