Do you have a dev/hdc1? ie use locate to search the dev directory.
/mnt/floppy- I recently discovered is reserved for ext2 filesystems (though
I could have sworn it worked for me at one point). I created a
mnt/winfloppy and it works fine.
Hope we don't give you foot and mouth. NH.
> From: Fred Cummins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Organization: University College Dublin
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 16:19:40 +0000
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Mount problems
>
> Since I recently upgraded from RH 6.1 to 7.0 I have run into problems in
> mounting filesystems on peripheral devices.
> Here some diagnostics:
>
>> mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> mount: /dev/fd0 has wrong major or minor number
>
>> ls -l /dev/fd0
> brw-rw---- 1 fred floppy 2, 0 Aug 24 2000 /dev/fd0
>
> My zip drive is hdc, and the disk had previously been formatted as ext2
> on hdc1:
>
>> mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc1 /mnt/zip
> mount: /dev/hdc1 is not a valid block device
>
> ls -l /dev/hdc1
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 22, 1 Aug 24 2000 /dev/hdc1
>
>> fdisk /dev/hdc
> Unable to open /dev/hdc
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> with thanks
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