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Re: formatted floppy type??



On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, Lawrence Lucier wrote:

> Hi all.........
> 
> 
> reason I'm asking is because my boot floppy and install disks don't seem to respond to either
> ext2 or dos when I try to mount them.
> Or maybe because I'm a newbie at linux I am issuing the wrong command???  :-)

It's entirely possible -- you should be doing someting like

mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt 

You can alternatively make a /floppy directory and mount the disk there
instead of on /mnt.
                     					Will

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