You can ignore what fstab says, in this case, since the floppy isn't
mounted.
"mount /mnt/floppy" won't do any good, because /mnt/floppy is not a
device. "mount /dev/fd0" on its own won't do any good, because you aren't
specifying a filesystem type or a mount point.
If the floppy is an ext2 formatted floppy, then "mount /dev/fd0
/mnt/floppy" should work just fine (assuming that the directory
/mnt/floppy exists.
As to the file types, this comes directly from "man mount":
-t vfstype
The argument following the -t is used to indicate
the file system type. The file system types which
are currently supported are: adfs, affs, autofs,
coda, coherent, cramfs, devpts, efs, ext, ext2,
hfs, hpfs, iso9660, minix, msdos, ncpfs, nfs, ntfs,
proc, qnx4, romfs, smbfs, sysv, udf, ufs, umsdos,
vfat, xenix, xfs, xiafs. Note that coherent, sysv
and xenix are equivalent and that xenix and coher
ent will be removed at some point in the future --
use sysv instead. Since kernel version 2.1.21 the
types ext and xiafs do not exist anymore.
So, if the floppy is a dos formatted floppy, you should use either:
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
or
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Linux wrote:
> Hi
>
> I was introduced to Linux at RH7.0 level and are struggling to understand
> why I cannot mount a floppy on a RH6.1 system I came across yesterday.
>
> I've used the command mount /mnt/floppy and mount /dev/fd0 but these spew
> out that extra command s are needed and the msdos format on the floppy is
> not recognised
>
> The /etc/fstab describes the floppy as ext2
>
> Do I need to change /etc/fstab?
> Are there any extra extensions I need to add to the mount command?
>
> Many Thanks
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>
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