From: Rasmus Plewe (rplewe_at_suse.de)
Date: Thu Oct 18 2007 - 11:42:15 CEST
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:42:15 +0200 From: Rasmus Plewe <rplewe@suse.de> Message-ID: <20071018094215.GD5742@coredump.suse.de> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] Can't mount floppy drive
Hello,
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 11:11:19AM -0400, John Bown wrote:
> Hello everyone. I have a newly imaged SLES 10 SP1 box with no updates
> (as of yet, that is). At any rate, I mounted the floppy drive
> successfully right after I installed the OS via "mount /dev/fd0".
> However, ever since I un-mounted it, I can't re-mount it, even as root!
> Both "mount /dev/fd0" and "mount /media/floppy" yield the following
> error message...
>
> "mount: you must specify a file system type"
>
> /etc/fstab reads...
> /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync
>
> Has anyone else out there come across this? FWIW, the floppy disk I'm
> trying to access was originally formatted in Windows. Many thanks.
1. make sure the floppy is still readable (verifying under Windows e.g.)
at all.
2. try something like "mount -t vfat /media/floppy", trying different
file systems (ntfs instead of vfat e.g. - I have no idea in which
format Windows formats floppies). A list of supported file systems
can be found in the mount man page.
3. resign, copy the contents of the floppy onto a USB stick and use this
one, or copy the data over a network, and burn all of those stone-age
storage media... ;-)
Regards,
Rasmus
-- Rasmus Plewe --- Linux Beta Test Coordinator SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) Maxfeldstrasse 5, D-90409 Nuernberg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-sles-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-sles-e-help@suse.com
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.7 : Thu Oct 18 2007 - 11:42:20 CEST