Mounting Floppy diskette problem on Redhat 8.0
brad
brad at ispn.net
Tue May 20 21:49:21 CDT 2003
I would guess that you need to specify the file system type like the
error states. If it was formatted on XP then it will probably be NTFS
or maybe FAT. You could try:
mount -t ntfs /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
However, you would need to have support for NTFS in your kernel and I
don't think it is there by default.
Brad
-----Forwarded Message-----
> From: Joe Pitts <pittspringdale at yahoo.com>
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: Mounting Floppy diskette problem on Redhat 8.0
> Date: 20 May 2003 13:20:32 -0700
>
> 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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