[K12OSN] Cant get server to find floppy drive

[norbert]

Hi,

First do a  "chmod 777 /mnt/floppy"
then try your mount "mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy"

The "errors" you're getting are OK
1) it's just that your CDROM is read only - normal
2) but the floppy is also read only - not usual unless it's write protected
3) superblock would imply that there's a problem with the floppy .... 
try a freshly formatted floppy disk from a Windows machine. It could 
also be that the floppy was not formatted under Windows ....

norbert


wilson at wilsonch.gotdns.com wrote:

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> From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On 
> Behalf Of norbert
> Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 4:55 PM
> To: Support list for opensource software in schools.
> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Cant get server to find floppy drive
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>
> Hi,
>
> Just cd to mnt and type mkdir floppy then check the permissions on 
> /mnt/floppy.
> However it is strange that yuo don't already have that directory....
>
> norbert
>
> [Wilson ]
>
> Okay, New error message. Is the permissions correct on the floppy 
> directory? Output below:
>
>  
>
> [root at server mnt]# mkdir floppy
>
> [root at server mnt]# ls -al
>
> total 16
>
> drwxr-xr-x   4 root root 4096 Oct 11 17:11 .
>
> drwxr-xr-x  22 root root 4096 Oct  9 20:55 ..
>
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4096 Oct  7 20:43 cdrom
>
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4096 Oct 11 17:11 floppy
>
> [root at server mnt]# mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
>
> mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
>
> mount: /dev/fd0: can't read superblock
>
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