Re: [SLUG] Can't Read or Copy From Floppy

From: edoc (kd4e@arrl.net)
Date: Sat Oct 06 2001 - 23:48:42 EDT


I am in root.

The response to "mount /dev/fd0" is no such file or directory,
or something like that ... it is late and I have shut down that
computer for the night.

Will try again tomorrow evening.

Thanks!

Sigh ... Doc

> edoc wrote:
> > I have tried fdmount and mount fd0 to no avail.
>
> Did you try "mount /dev/fd0"???
>
> Also, unless you gave ownership or write access to /dev/fd0, or put
> "user" in the /etc/fstab entry, only root can access it.
>
> What I like to do (on workstations) is put "user" in /etc/fstab
> under options, and "auto" under filesystem type in the floppy
> entry. Then symlink to /a ("ln -s /mnt/floppy /a") so I can mount
> with simply "mount /a" and umount with "umount /a".
>
> -- TheBS



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