floppy format

[sam]

I can use DOS floppies but when I format a floppy with ext2 I can't mount it or acces it. I get this;

bash-2.05b# /mnt/floppy
bash: /mnt/floppy: is a directory
bash-2.05b# mount /dev/fd0
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0,
or too many mounted file systems

The RedHat manual says to use /mnt/floppy and that doesn't work. Should I just use DOS formatted disks?

Thanks for any input,

Signed,
Maybe Linux is to hard : ( I better go back to windoz

[Dolda2000]

It's possible that the RedHat installer has specified that floppies should have FAT on them. Can you post your /etc/fstab?

[sam]

Thanks for the help. Here is my fstab;

bash-2.05b$ cat /etc/fstab
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hdg3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0


While I have you, why is my prompt no longer user@localhost and now bash-2.5b$
This just started after a RedHat update.

Thanks again

[Giro]

Try running

mount /mnt/floppy

You where trying to mount /dev/fd0 without giving a mount point it should have been

mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

[sam]

Thanks for the help. I get this with those commands on a 3.5" disk formatted in ext2;

bash-2.05b# mount /mnt/floppy
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0,
or too many mounted file systems
bash-2.05b# mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0,
or too many mounted file systems

[logan5]

I've had good results under RedHat (9 and fedora) with this

To mount an ms-dos floppy, make a directory where you would like to mount it.

 cd /

 mkdir /floppy

Then issue this command

 mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy

To mount a floppy that is formatted for Linux (ext2 or ext3) simply change msdos above to ext2 or it might be ext3. Your enviroment might (and probably will) be different.

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edit added after reading your above post

if you are getting the "too many file systems mounted" error. try something like this. And then do the above again.

 umount /mnt/fd0

[Giro]

Sorry i thought you had problems with mounting FD formated EXT2/3 but it seems your question has changed you asked about a EXT2/3 disk now you are talking about FAT32 please dont make us look like fools by changing you question half way though EDIT :_ Im sorry it was another post i thought it was by the same person. Sorry i have realised someone posted half way though the post im sorry, But you must be doing someting wrong it should be mke2fs /dev/fd0

[sam]

Thanks for the help. I didn't mean to cause confusion. I don't see anything in any of my posts about FAT32. My problem is mounting a floppy formatted in EXT2.

When I run this command;
bash-2.05b# mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /floppy

I get this
mount: mount point /floppy does not exist

Maybe my RedHat will only read DOS disks?

[lordnothing]

that message simply means that the dir /floppy doesn't exist... check to see if you have a /mnt or /mount dir and then check to see if there is a ./floppy dir within one of those two...

[sam]

Yes I have a mnt directory with a floppy directory in it.