From: Erik Geertsema (mtveg@rivm.nl)
Date: 05/14/93 

From: mtveg@rivm.nl (Erik Geertsema)
Subject: Re: How to mount floppy??
Date: 14 May 1993 07:32:17 GMT

=====Pete Hsu===== (u8011033@cc.nctu.edu.tw) wrote:

: Hi! There :
:
: I got a problem to mount my floppy disk in linux

: when I as user,I type

: mount fd1

: it tells me

: can't find creat lock file /etc/mtab~

: permission denied

: When I as root , it says
:

: can't find /dev/fd1 in /etc/fstab

: and my fstab is :

: /dev/hda2 / ext2 defaults
: none /proc proc defaults

: How can I mount my floppy???

: Thanx in advance!

: u8011033@cc.nctu.edu.tw
Assuming your floppy is a 1.44MB one in drive 0, and you want to mount it
on /mnt, type :

 mount /dev/fd0H1440 /mnt

or, if it is a MS-Dos floppy, type :

 mount -t msdos /dev/fd0H1440 /mnt

Thats all there is to it.

     Erik.