[2785] in RedHat Linux List
Re: mounting the floppy and printing with a deskjet 560c
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Forrester)
Tue Nov 5 13:16:18 1996
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Cc: bgk@cypress.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 05 Nov 1996 11:15:36 CST."
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Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 10:11:20 -0800
From: Rick Forrester <rickf@glacier.jpl.nasa.gov>
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> I am very new to this stuff so please don't laugh at these
> questions. I searched the archives first but I didn't find anything
> to directly answer my questions.
>
> 1) I can't seem to mount my floppy.
> I type: mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
>
> and I get: mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
>
> What is wrong? Also, why is the floppy not mounted at boot time?
>
should probably be: "mount -t <msdos/ext2/etc> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy"
[snip]
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