[K12OSN] Cant get server to find floppy drive

Wilson Chan wilson at wilsonch.gotdns.com
Tue Oct 12 01:35:13 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

Nope, It didn't work. Here's the output:

[root at server root]# mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
mount: mount point /mnt/floppy does not exist





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