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Elsipkitch9809
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 Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2002 9:13 pm Post subject: Mounting floppy disk |
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Hola,
I have a quick question that I haven't been able to figure out yet. How does someone mount a floppy disk drive? I tried mount /mnt/floppy, but realized that I need to add it to my /etc/fstab file. I tried to make a line for it, but it seems like its not working, because it had problems "mounting an unknown fs". It may have been FAT that it was trying to mount, but even so, is there a program that will let you format a disk to a certain fs? Thanks for any help  |
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rac
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| Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2002 9:58 pm Post subject: Re: Mounting floppy disk |
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| alaterale wrote: | | I have a quick question that I haven't been able to figure out yet. How does someone mount a floppy disk drive? |
Adding to /etc/fstab as you described is a good long-term idea. Without that entry, you would need something like: | Code: | | # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy |
| Quote: | | is there a program that will let you format a disk to a certain fs? |
Since you mention FAT, I'll assume you're on x86, so you might want to look into the dosfstools package.
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