Re: mounting floppy

[Dale Morris <dlm@well.com>]

kmself@ix.netcom.com [kmself@ix.netcom.com] wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 08:38:39PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote:
> > Moritz Schulte [tux@gmx.li] wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 09:57:12PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I'm trying to mount a floppy that I made with Redhat 6.2 system. It
> > > > mounted on a previous install of potato, but I reinstalled and now
> > > > when I try to mount it I get the following error message: [I cannot
> > > > determine the file type and none was specified]
> > > 
> > > which filesystem has this floppy? which filesystem does /dev/fd0 have
> > > in /etc/fstab? can you mount the floppy with 'mount -t <fs> /dev/fd0
> > > /floppy'?
> > This floppy is formatted ext2 filesystem and when I try to mount it with the above command I receive the following message:
> > 
> > debian:/home/dlm# mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0/floppy
>                                           ^^^^^^^
> 
> You need to leave a space between the device and the mount point:
> 
>    $ mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0    /floppy

Still doesn't work. Here's the output of that command:
debian:/home/dlm# mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0    /floppy
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0,
       or too many mounted file systems

dale