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On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Bill Lewis wrote:
> Help, I can't access my floppy . when Linux boots up I see a line that
> says device fd0 is 1.44. However I can't access the floppy to format,
> copy to or from or read. I get this
>
> mount /dev/fd0
> returned the following error:
> mount:/dev/fd0 is not a valid block device.
type:
ls -alF /dev/fd0
You should get:
brw-rw-r-- 1 root floppy 2, 0 Jan 1 1980 /dev/fd0
also look in /etc/fstab
you should see a line like
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 noauto 0 0
Unless your floppy is totally non-standard, it isn't PnP. There's no
reason to create a PnP floppy drive/controller. Also make sure you're
trying to mount the floppy as the 'root' user.
If you're using the new Win95/OSR2 filesystem (fat32 I believe it's
called) you'll need a kernel patch to read it. It isn't part of the
standard kernel (yet).
Good luck!
> I am having a suspision that my floppy is PnP. I have PnP modem and am
> trying to get the isapnptools onto the hard drive.
> I have on drive c: my windoze95 stuff
> on drive d: it is the linux drive.
> I use lilo to boot linux or win95.
> linux can't read win95 because of 32bit fat. I guess... I am new to
> linux (2 weeks) Cant get on internet with linux yet.
>
>
>
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