<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#000000" text="#ffffff"> harking wrote: <blockquote cite="mid1178906717.4813.9.camel@Khufu.localhost" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">How do, On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 13:36 -0400, Bob Goodwin - W2BOD wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Can someone tell me why I can't mount a Windows floppy containing a WordPerfect .wpd file on this FC6 computer? mount /dev/fd0 mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: you must specify the filesystem type so I tried mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 but that doesn't work! I put the following in /etc/fstab /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto defaults,noauto 0 0 which may not be correct? I tried to follow what I see in a Centos4.4 box that does read the floppy directory, but messed around with the default,noauto. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Try the following in /etc/fstab; /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0 </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I feel like a rat in a maze after spending the whole morning trying to retrieve the file from an old doggy Windows 98 computer that must have crashed twenty times and refuses to recognize a mouse. Windows without a mouse is a real exercise, for me anyway! Thanks. Bob Goodwin </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> taharka Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A. </pre> </blockquote> I will try as you suggest for the stab entry, I need to research those term and find out what I'm doing with them. Anyway the immediate problem is solved. Thanks to you and Mike McCarty. Sorry if I was sketchy with info but I thought I had done everything required, just needed to tell mount where to put it. Tnx. Bob Goodwin Zuni, Virginia </body> </html>