FC6 and floppy mounting

azeem ahmad azeem81 at msn.com
Thu May 31 16:16:49 UTC 2007


amazingly enough  i am unable to mount a floppy disk in FC6

here is the output of commands
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[root at linux01 ~]# mount -v /dev/floppy-fd0 /media/floppy
mount: you didn't specify a filesystem type for /dev/floppy-fd0
       I will try all types mentioned in /etc/filesystems or 
/proc/filesystems
Trying hfsplus
mount: block device /dev/floppy-fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: you didn't specify a filesystem type for /dev/floppy-fd0
       I will try all types mentioned in /etc/filesystems or 
/proc/filesystems
Trying hfsplus
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

[root at linux01 ~]# mount -v -t vfat /dev/floppy-fd0 /media/floppy
mount: block device /dev/floppy-fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: /dev/floppy-fd0: can't read superblock

[root at linux01 ~]# mount -v -t vfat /dev/fd0 /media/floppy
mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: /dev/fd0: can't read superblock
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can anyone out there guide me how to mount a floppy in FC6

Regards
Azeem

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