Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
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!
Of course not. Most floppies are FAT-12 filesystems. Try just "-t
msdos" instead of vfat.
Yes I had tried msdos, that wasn't my problem ...
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.
My entries for fd0 & fd1:
/dev/fd0 /A: msdos defaults,user,noauto
/dev/fd1 /B: msdos defaults,owner,noauto
of course this will only allow any user to mount a FAT formatted floppy
by hand (The user can now type: "mount /dev/fd0" and it should work
and only that user should have write-access to the floppy.) You can
read about the differences between "user" and "owner" in the mount man page.
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!
Before playing with /etc/fstab, mount it by hand. In that way, you can
play with the mount arguments until you get it right. Try:
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /media/floppy
and see if that works. If it does, then you can create:
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy msdos defaults,user
Thanks for the information, I needed that.
Bob Goodwin
