Ubuntu LiveCD and Floppies

A problem here with the Ubuntu livecd and mounting the floppy drive.

It didn't detect the floppy drive which is cleary their, so after trying "mount /dev/fd0" my friend got the return messege " mount: can't find /dev/fd0 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab"

What did we do wrong here?

If there was an entry in /etc/fstab for /dev/fd0, it would tell Linux where you want to mount it. Since you don't have that entry (apparently), then you need to be more explicit. Try:

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mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

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For that to work, there should be a /floppy subdirectory under the /mnt directory. If there isn't, you can add one like this:

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mkdir /mnt/floppy

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You don't have to mount it there and you don't have to call the subdirectory "floppy". You just need to name it so Linux knows where you want to "mount /dev/fd0" and the "mountpoint" (where you mount it) must exist and have write permissions for whoever issues the command.

If you had the system installed to a hard drive, you could edit /etc/fstab to make things easier, but there isn't much point there running from a liveCD unless you need to mount several floppies before re-booting.