On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 03:11:04PM -0400, James Kosin wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Rick Stevens wrote: > <<-- snip -->> > > If you use fdformat to format the floppy in Linux, you still need to use > mkfs to build a file system on the floppy. Otherwise, you will still > get this error, even after the format. > This is wrong. In fact fdformat is for making dos type disks and mkfs for linux formatted disks > /dev/fd0 is only permitted if fdformat knows the format already or can > find it out from the floppy. > > You can use mount /mnt/floppy to try again. Or better still, get a disk > you know is good... and try mounting that. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
