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- From: ellmenre@kirk.fmi.uni-passau.de (Nils Ellmenreich)
- Subject: Re: Problems mounting a floppy!!!!!!!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.120218.17048@tom.rz.uni-passau.de>
- Keywords: mounting floppy problems fstab
- Sender: news@tom.rz.uni-passau.de (News-Operator)
- Organization: University of Passau, Germany
- References: <1i94fmINNnds@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 12:02:18 GMT
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- In article <1i94fmINNnds@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>, jansen@bruichladdich.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Thomas Jansen) writes:
- |> How can I mount a floppy ????
- |> Trying to mount the floppy with :
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- |> mount /dev/fd0 /floppy (where floppy is a created subdirectory)
- |>
- |> I get the message: "/dev/fd0 allready mounted or /floppy busy "
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- There are three possibilities:
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- - You didn't put a filesystem on the floppy. Do that by typing
- mkfs /dev/fd0 1440 (for 3.5" HD)
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- - The directory /floppy is not empty.
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- - You have already mounted sth. on /floppy.
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- Hope that helps!
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- --
- Nils Ellmenreich University of Passau, Germany
- ellmenre@kirk.fmi.uni-passau.de ellmenre@forwiss.uni-passau.de
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