How to mount floppy?

Mike McCarty Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net
Fri May 11 18:01:38 UTC 2007


Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Bob Goodwin - W2BOD wrote:
> 
>>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

Bob, you're not giving enough information to get good help.
Try man mount. You need to specify an empty directory as a
mount point. We can't tell whether you supplied one or not.
Give us the error message.

Mike
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