Re: Floppy Drive failed to install

[Dave Engvall <dengvall-at-elltel.net>]

On 6/22/01 9:29 PM, "Chris Stratton" <stratton-at-mdc.net> wrote:

> 
> [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
>> 
>> After installing BDI the floppy drive failed to install. I keep getting
>>                             could not mount
>>                mount: can't find /dev/fd0 in/etc/fstab or/etc/mtab
>> How can I fix this
> 
> George, 
> 
> I don't have the BDI install, but in most linux systems I've worked on
> the floppy drive isn't automatic.  Rather you have to type
> 
> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt
> 
> Assuming you have a dos format floppy in it (linux native floppies are
> rather rare) and you want to put it on a mount point called /mnt
> 
> Before you remove the floppy, make sure you are in a different
> directory then issue a sync command (perhaps twice) to make sure all
> writes have actually occured and then unmount /mnt (unmount /dev/fd0
> may be more formal, but the other has always worked for me).
> 
> It's possible the BDI install has some fancier tools... but the above
> should work for you.
> 
> Chris


Chris, 
AFIK doing a umount  will sync the discs. I've never issua a sync when I
unmount the floppy. Or any other file system.

Also, it is not unusual to have several mount directories. Ie. Formlly:
/mnt/floppy, /mnt/cdrom, etc.
However any directory can act as a mount point. Ie. You can go mount
/dev/fd0 /floppy as long as a /floppy directory exists and have it work.

RH seems to like to put mount points in /etc/mtab therefore at least on
2.0.36 a simple mount /mnt/floppy will work.

In addition I often make ex2fs file systems on floppys for transfer of files
by sneakernet. Saves the -t msdos part of the mount command.

Hope this helps without confusing.

Dave