On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 16:27:48 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote:
On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 16:09:52 -0500 (EST), Camaleón wrote:
On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:07:20 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote:
Well, I'm not exactly a newbie. I've been using Linux for more than
10 years. But I must be doing something wrong. I can't seem to get a
floppy disk to mount.
...
Weird :-?
I would try with the simplest command:
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
If you get no error, run "mount" to ensure your floppy has been
mounted. Also, check for "dmesg" output.
No dice. I tried your suggested command, except that I changed /dev/fd0
to /dev/fd1, since I need the 5.25-inch drive, not the 3.5-inch drive,
but other than that it was just as you suggested. No mount, no error
message. The only output from dmesg is the original warning message:
FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems,
filesystem will be case sensitive!
which also comes out on the terminal, since I am issuing the command
from an active Linux virtual console, not a terminal emulation window in
X.
Strange, indeed.
I would try to load the floppies in another computer, maybe they become
damaged somehow :-?
Also, to discard any problem with squeeze, you can test it under a livecd
(by instance, in lenny, I don't get that "warning" about utf-8 charset
when accessing my floppy disks).
Greetings,