Mounting Floppy diskette problem on Redhat 8.0

[brad]

Oops....Guess I don't spend much time with floppies or windows.

Brad

On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 17:14, Jeremy Fowler wrote:
> 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
> > 
> > 
> > -----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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