At 11:43 PM 2/6/00 -0800, Dale Morris wrote:
>1) I was using Redhat 6.1 prior and saved some files to floppy. Now, 7.0
>won't mount the floppy, I get a 'wrong filesystem..' error. I'm sure the
>floppy is working correctly because it made the boot floppy during
>install. What do I do?
What filesystem is on the floppy? minix? msdos? Try including the filesystem
type explicitly in the mount command, for example
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
>2) How do I configure my fstab file to read dos floppies? I would like
>to be able to read the text files and jpeg files I have on some
>floppies.
You don't usually do this through fstab . Mounting with a command like the
one above will provide the access you want.
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