Re: [Fwd: Re: mounting floppy disk]

[David Wright <d.wright@open.ac.uk>]

Quoting Daniel González Gasull (gasull@altavista.net):
> Hi all.
> 
> I'm re-sending this message, because I've got no response.  Please help me, or
> let me know where can I post this question.
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Daniel González Gasull <gasull@altavista.net> -----
> 
> > Jiri Baum <jiri@baum.com.au> wrote:
> > 
> > > Daniel Gonz_lez Gasull:
> > > > > I have problems mounting /dev/fd0:
> > > > >
> > > > >         # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> > > > >         mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/fd0 as a block device
> > > > >                (maybe `insmod driver'?)
> > > 
> > > Jens B. Jorgensen:
> > > > This would seem to indicate your kernel lacks floppy drive support!? What
> > > > do you get from: 'cat /proc/devices | grep fd'?

I thought I saw you post the output from cat /proc/devices
and it only had one line, "3 ide0", which means you have no
floppy support in your kernel. This would have showed up
as "2 fd". Possibly, no one pointed this out.

Cheers,

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