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Re: mounting and accessing floppy



On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 02:25:23PM -0700, Joseph wrote:
> I'm trying to mount and access floppy, it would seem so simple (as
> instructions are everywhere) but I still have a problem and the worse is
> I don't know why it is not working.
> 
> My /etc/fstab has entry:
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy msdos defaults 1 2
> 
> I've tried as well:
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat user,noauto  0 0
> 
> and whenever I try to mount floppy
> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> 
> I get a mess a message:
> mount: wrong fs type, bad options, bad superblock on /dev/fd0

Have you tried "auto" as fs type instead of "msdos" or vfat"?

> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> By the way how do I give user permission to mount floppy 
> My /floppy directory has mod 777 
> 
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> Joseph
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