On Thu, 4 May 2000, Akshay Salkar wrote:
> I just put back my floppy disk. It seems to be working fine.But i yet
> havent got to know how to use it on Linux. Does it read DOS formatted
> disks. I tried that but it said something of wrong ext2 or something. i
Fix your line length
You need to specify the file system that is on the floppy. For a dos
floppy, this would be umsdos or vfat.
Do this:
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
Now, you may not always know which floppy you put in, so mount under linux
gives you one more option:
mount -t auto /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
This is still too much to type though, so we can just enter it into the
fstab:
edit /etc/fstab
(change to root first (you do work as a non-root user don't you?))
look for the line that starts with /dev/fd0
In the third column, which says ext2, change it to auto
> am sorry i dont know the exact error. How to format a linux diskette.
man fdformat
> and how is it that linux recognizes a cdrom when mounted.??
cause it's in your fstab. cdroms use an iso9660 file system (not windows
or unix or mac specific). The reason being that unlike hard disks and
floppies that have tracks and sectors, a cdrom is just one long track
spiralling in from the outside in (or maybe the other way round). This is
also the reason that you've got to burn an entire cd at one go.
Philip
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