Mounting Floppy diskette problem on Redhat 8.0
Joe Pitts
pittspringdale at yahoo.com
Tue May 20 20:20:33 CDT 2003
Hello, KCLUG,
I have a newbie Linux question about how to mount a floppy diskette that is formatted on Windows XP.
I tried to mount this diskette on the Redhat 8.0 desktop again and again.
but it keep saying that
"
#[root at red root]#mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
/dev/fd0: Input/Output error
mount : you must specify the filesystem type
"
I don't know why it doesn't allow to mount this floppy diskette.
I can access to this diskette on the Windows system,
but not in Linux box.
What about my Linux box?
Well, it is an Emachine Pentium 4 with 256MB RAM
there is no other scsi disk or anything except CD-Writer come with.
I don't have any problem accessing CDROM.
when I check the file system mounting point /etc/fstab
I have like this:
[root at red root]# cat /etc/fstab
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
LABEL=/usr /usr ext3 defaults 1 2
LABEL=/var /var ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
[root at red root]#
I haven't modified any parameter on this file yet after I installed.
Any recommendation?
Thanks in advance.
Joseph Pitts
pittspringdale at yahoo.com
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