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linux mount floppy

Subject: Re: Error Mounting Floppy
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 16:55:50 MST

Tony,

Hey thanks for the info.  Your way of mounting the floppy still didn't work 
but it did give me a more valid reason of why.

When I used your command to mount the floppy it reported back "unknown 
filesystem"  which led me to look at the kernel configuration.  And then I 
noticed I hadn't compiled in the DOS Filesystem driver.  So once I re-did 
that it all worked fine.

> >
> > I was searching through the deja.com articles and found a reply to a 
>posting
> > you had done about mounting a floppy.  You used a command
> > called "mkdev".
> >
> > I've been having problems mounting a floppy drive since I patched my 
>kernel
> > and someone suggested using MAKEDEV.  After searching my system for this
> > command I couldn't find it.
> >
> > Then I discovered your similar command usage.  So I thought I would 
>email
> > you and see if you had a solution to my problem.  Linux keeps telling me 
>I
> > have a "bad major/minor number" for my floppy when trying to mount it.
> > Would you know how to fix this?
>
>
>MAKEDEV is for Sun and other BSD systems; "mkdev" is for SCO, and
>on Linux you are probably trying to access the wrong floppy
>device: on a RH system, this
>
>mount -t msdos /dev/fd0H1440 /mnt
>
>would mount a 1.44 meg floppy in the A: drive.
>
>
>--
>Tony Lawrence (tony@aplawrence.com)
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