Re: [LI] Floppy Drive not mounting.

[Atul Chitnis <achitnis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Pradyumna Asmar wrote:

> I install RedHat 6.1 in my system successfully(Thanks to PCQ). In my system 
> I have both drives 1.2MB & 1.44MB as A & B. The problem is that whenever i 
> am going to mount floppy from terminal or in X i get folloing error;
> **** mount : wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or too 
> many mounted file systems.

By default, the floppy drive is configured to assume ext2 formatted disks.
If you never use such disks, just edit /etc/fstab and change

/dev/fd0        /mnt/floppy             ext2    owner,noauto    0 0

to

/dev/fd0        /mnt/floppy             vfat    owner,noauto    0 0

Atul


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