Mounting Floppy diskette problem on Redhat 8.0

[David Ryman]

try: mount /dev/fd0 works on SuSE

On Tuesday 20 May 2003 15:20, Joe Pitts wrote:
> 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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David Ryman
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