Mounting Floppy diskette problem on Redhat 8.0

[Jason Munro]

On May 20, 3:20 pm Joe Pitts <pittspringdale at yahoo.com> 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
> "

For floppies made in win9X I use:

mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy -t vfat

HTH
 

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