[NTLUG:Discuss] Trouble mounting my floppy

[John R. Hall]

"Carter B. Bennett" wrote:

> I know, that sounds like a personal problem, but all jokes aside, in the
> fstab file it is defined as:
>
> /dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             ext2, noauto
>
> I have a dir in mnt called floppy but when I try: mount /mnt/floppy as root
> I get:
>
> VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev/fd0 (2,0).
> mount: wrong fs type, bad options, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or too many
> mounted file systems.
>
> Talk about a kitchen sink error message. What am I doing wrong ? I had just
> copyed a file to this floppy from another linux box with no problems.
> You may be able to kill two birds with one stone, but, in the end when it's
> all over, all you really have are two dead birds, and your short one stone.

Perhaps the floppy is MS-DOS formatted... I frequently format my disks with
FAT so they can be read by not-so-enlightened systems. Try mount -t msdos
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy (you have to provide all the parameters if you specify an
FS type). If that doesn't work, try vfat instead of msdos.

-Reeves