[ale] Problem mounting floppy drive with RedHat 5.2

[nlucent at mindspring.com (Nick Lucent)]

On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 11:50:29PM +0000, Raptor shook his keyboard and out fell:
> Hello, everyone.  I just installed RedHat Linux 5.2 and am having some
> trouble mounting the floppy drive.
> 
> When I type:
> 	mount /mnt/floppy
> 
> I get the following error:
> 	end request:  I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0
> 	mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
> 
Assuming it has a dosfs on it try 'mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy' that
will mount a dos disk. If its some other format that change the msdos part
as needed. In order to mount it the way you are trying your fstab has to be
setup to know what kind of fs on the device, which I dont know if redhat
does by default. If you want to know how to do that just let us know.

Nick
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