I had a similar experience. First, make sure you have a directory named
"/mnt/floppy"
Then, to resolve it, I went to a console and then typed:
"mount /dev/fd0 -t vfat /mnt/floppy" without the quotes
If the diskette is "ext2," then type:
"mount /dev/fd0 -t ext2 /mnt/floppy" without the quotes
If this works for you, then go ahead and create two icons on the
desktop...one to mount the floppy and vfat and another to mount the floppy
as ext2.
HTH,
Matt
>From: David van Balen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [newbie] problems mounting floppy
>Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 16:16:33 -0600 (CST)
>
>
>I just tried to save something to my floppy drive for the first time since
>I reinstalled 6.1 and when I try to mount it I get the message:
>
>mount: /dev/fd0 already mounted or /mnt/floppy busy
>
>I'm pretty sure that fd0 isn't mounted. Catting /proc/mounts yields:
>
>/dev/root / ext2 rw 0 0
>/proc /proc proc rw 0 0
>/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 rw 0 0
>/dev/hda5 /home/vanbalen/vmware ext2 rw 0 0
>none /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
>localhost:(pid421) /net nfs
>rw,rsize=1024,wsize=1024,acregmin=0,acregmax=0,acdir
>min=0,acdirmax=0,noac,addr=pid421@localhost:/net 0 0
>/dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrw iso9660 ro 0 0
>/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,nosuid,nodev 0 0
>
>and running df on /mnt/floppy yields:
>
>Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>/dev/hdb5 20G 2.0G 17G 11% /
>
>So unless fd0 is mounted somewhere else (which /proc/mounts suggests it's
>not), I have no idea what the problem is.
>My entry in fstab also looks fine (I haven't changed the default):
>
>/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto
>sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev,unhide 0 0
>
>Any help would be appreciated. I need to be able to use my floppy kind of
>urgently.
>
>DvB
>
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