Floppy written in CentOS won't mount in FC3

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Thu Jul 14 12:41:48 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 16:37 +0900, Mark Sargent wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> get the following when trying to mount a floppy that was written in 
> CentOS, and can be mounted/read in it,
> 
> [root at localhost ~]# mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /media/floppy
> mount: /dev/fd0: can't read superblock
> 
> What am I doing that is probably so fundamental that the cat will 
> probably kick me..? Cheers.
> 
> Mark Sargent.
> 
A floppy is not vfat.
try a simple "mount /media/floppy".  The system should see the proper
filesystem type and mount it.  Is is after all in fstab with filesystem
type "auto"




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