[K12OSN] Cant get server to find floppy drive

"Terrell Prudé, Jr." microman at cmosnetworks.com
Mon Oct 11 20:52:26 UTC 2004


Wilson Chan wrote:

>>Wilson:
>>
>>Your ls command indicates that your only mount point
>>under mnt is cdrom. You first need to create a mount
>>point named 'floppy' as indicated in your fstab file
>>by /mnt/floppy.
>>
>>Next retry the mount command:
>>
>>...]mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
>>
>>    
>>
>Just tried the command but it didnt work. Output below:
>
>[root at server mnt]# mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
>/dev/fd0: Invalid argument
>mount: you must specify the filesystem type
>[root at server mnt]# 
>  
>

Add this:

  -t vfat

to the above command.  Your command now should look like this:

  mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

Let us know!

--TP




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