[NTLUG:Discuss] Trouble mounting my floppy

[juice@airmail.net]

On Thu, 23 Dec 1999 10:21:47 -0600, "Carter B. Bennett"
<lhcs at fastlane.net> 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'm not sure there is supposed to be a comma in that line.

>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.
>
Also vfat flpppies can be mounted msdos and you just lose the extra
info.

juice --have fun --harm none
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