Mounting Floppy diskette problem on Redhat 8.0
Jeremy Fowler
JFowler at westrope.com
Tue May 20 22:14:28 CDT 2003
um... you can't format a floppy with NTFS or FAT32. All Windows formatted floppies are just plain
old FAT.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: brad [mailto:brad at ispn.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 4:51 PM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: Mounting Floppy diskette problem on Redhat 8.0
>
>
> 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
>
>
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>
> > 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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