[plug] mounting floppy disk

Christopher Darby chris at mnet.com.au
Thu Sep 7 16:35:27 WST 2000


try
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

-----Original Message-----
From: David Buddrige [mailto:buddrige at q-net.net.au]
Sent: Thursday, 7 September 2000 4:16 PM
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: [plug] mounting floppy disk


Hi all,

I have a floppy disk formatted under windows which I want to mount at
/mnt/floppy so as to transfer a document (staroffice) from my linux box to
a windows machine.

However, when I run the command:

	mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

it says that the kernel does not have support for msdos filesystems.  I am
running a stock redhat 6.2 kernel... any ideas on what the correct file
system would be?  I have tried fat16, fat32, but no success thus far.

thanks heaps

David.




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