[NTLUG:Discuss] Trouble mounting my floppy

[Cameron]

* lhcs at fastlane.net [1999.12.23 10:26]:
: 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.
: 
: Carter B. Bennett
: Little House Computer Service (LHCS)
: Proud user of Linux & Linux Based Products
: 

the only time i've seen that error mesg is when i try mounting a floppy
that has a msdos fs on it.  have you tried mounting it as a dos floppy?
  mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
-- 
cameron
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