Re: How to mount floppy?

How do,

On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 13:36 -0400, Bob Goodwin - W2BOD wrote:
  

Can someone tell me why I can't mount a Windows floppy containing a 
WordPerfect .wpd file on this FC6 computer?

mount  /dev/fd0
mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

so I tried mount -t vfat /dev/fd0

but that doesn't work!

I put the following in /etc/fstab

/dev/fd0                /media/floppy           auto    defaults,noauto 0 0

which may not be correct?  I tried to follow what I see in a Centos4.4 
box that does read the floppy directory, but messed around with the 
default,noauto.
    

Try the following in /etc/fstab;
/dev/fd0             /media/floppy        auto       noauto,user,sync
0 0

  

I feel like a rat in a maze after spending the whole morning trying to 
retrieve the file from an old doggy Windows 98 computer that must have 
crashed twenty times and refuses to recognize a mouse.  Windows without 
a mouse is a real exercise, for me anyway!

Thanks.

Bob Goodwin
    

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Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.