Re: Mounting a floppy drive

[Paul Nathan Puri <publisher@ompages.com>]

apt-get install mtools?

Malcolm Miles wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 20:17:08 PST, you wrote:
> 
> >When I tried to mount my floppy drive using:
> >mount -t msdod /dev/fd0 /a
> >I got these messages:
> >end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0
> >mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
> 
> Similar thing here:
> 
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0
> mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0
> FAT bread failed
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on dev/fd0, or too many mounted file syste,s
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> mgm
> 
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