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Re: mounting the /floppy fails



El Jueves, 19 de Agosto de 2004 15:38, messmate escribió:
> Hello,
> on my debian sarge can't mount /floppy as user nor root :(
> The fstab output:
> /dev/fd0	/floppy	auto	users,noauto		0	0
>
> sudo mount /dev/fd0 /floppy
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type
>
>
Is the floppy windows formatted?

I have similiar problems with some (not all) windows formatted floppies.
I solve it by changing "auto" to "vfat". The problem is that you need another 
entry in the fstab file if you want to use linux formatted floppies.

Luis.

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