<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hi, First do a "chmod 777 /mnt/floppy" then try your mount "mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy" The "errors" you're getting are OK 1) it's just that your CDROM is read only - normal 2) but the floppy is also read only - not usual unless it's write protected 3) superblock would imply that there's a problem with the floppy .... try a freshly formatted floppy disk from a Windows machine. It could also be that the floppy was not formatted under Windows .... norbert <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:wilson@wilsonch.gotdns.com">wilson@wilsonch.gotdns.com</a> wrote: <blockquote cite="mid200410120314.i9C3ESQm008352@ms-smtp-02-eri0.socal.rr.com" type="cite"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; "> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"><o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName">  <style>  </style> </o:SmartTagType></o:SmartTagType></o:SmartTagType> <div class="Section1"> <div style="border-style: none none none solid; border-color: -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color blue; border-width: medium medium medium 1.5pt; padding: 0in 0in 0in 4pt;"> <div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"> <hr tabindex="-1" align="center" size="2" width="100%"></div> From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:k12osn-bounces@redhat.com">k12osn-bounces@redhat.com</a> [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:k12osn-bounces@redhat.com">mailto:k12osn-bounces@redhat.com</a>] On Behalf Of norbert Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 4:55 PM To: <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Support list for opensource software in schools.</st1:PersonName> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Cant get server to find floppy drive<o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> Hi, Just cd to mnt and type mkdir floppy then check the permissions on /mnt/floppy. However it is strange that yuo don't already have that directory.... norbert <o:p></o:p> [<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Wilson</st1:place></st1:City> ] <o:p></o:p> Okay, New error message. Is the permissions correct on the floppy directory? Output below:<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> [root@server mnt]# mkdir floppy<o:p></o:p> [root@server mnt]# ls -al<o:p></o:p> total 16<o:p></o:p> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Oct 11 17:11 .<o:p></o:p> drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Oct 9 20:55 ..<o:p></o:p> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 7 20:43 cdrom<o:p></o:p> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 11 17:11 floppy<o:p></o:p> [root@server mnt]# mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy<o:p></o:p> mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only<o:p></o:p> mount: /dev/fd0: can't read superblock<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> </div> </div> <pre wrap=""> <hr size="4" width="90%"> _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.k12os.org"><http://www.k12os.org></a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>