Hey, I'm following Pocket Linux Guide from www.tldp.org. The 2nd chapter 2.3.1 talks about prepare the book disk media.
I got a blank floppy disk, inserted it in and did the following $-----code1 begin---------$ ronie:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k count=1440 dd: writing `/dev/fd0': Input/output error 1+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.803137 seconds, 0.0 kB/s $-----code1 end--------$ After that I did mke2fs command as below: $------------------Code2 begin-------------------$ ronie:~# mke2fs -m0 /dev/fd0 mke2fs 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006) Warning: could not erase sector 2: Attempt to write block from filesystem resulted in short write Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block size=1024 (log=0) Fragment size=1024 (log=0) 184 inodes, 1440 blocks 0 blocks (0.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=1 Maximum filesystem blocks=1572864 1 block group 8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group 184 inodes per group Warning: could not read block 0: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read Warning: could not erase sector 0: Attempt to write block from filesystem resulted in short write Writing inode tables: done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: Warning, had trouble writing out superblocks.done This filesystem will be automatically checked every 26 mounts or 180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override. $-------------------code2 end----------------$ After that, I found out I could not mount onto the floppy disk. $------------------code3 begin-----------------------$ ronie:~# mount /dev/fd0 /mnt mount: you must specify the filesystem type ronie:~# mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, missing codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so $---------------code3 end----------------------------$ $---------------code4 begin-----------------------$ ronie:~# dmesg | tail Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0 floppy0: data CRC error: track 1, head 0, sector 7, size 2 floppy0: data CRC error: track 1, head 0, sector 7, size 2 end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 42 Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 5 floppy0: data CRC error: track 0, head 0, sector 7, size 2 floppy0: data CRC error: track 0, head 0, sector 7, size 2 end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 6 Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0 VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev fd0. $-------------------code4 end-------------------------$ What is the filesystem I should specify for this? Thanks a lot in advance! Rocky -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]