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- From: terjeve@ifi.uio.no (Terje Vernly)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Problems mounting a floppy!!!!!!!!
- Message-ID: <TERJEVE.93Jan4200526@kolsaas.ifi.uio.no>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 19:05:26 GMT
- References: <1i94fmINNnds@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
- <1993Jan4.120218.17048@tom.rz.uni-passau.de>
- Sender: terjeve@ifi.uio.no (Terje Vernly)
- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Oslo, Norway
- Lines: 32
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- In-Reply-To: ellmenre@kirk.fmi.uni-passau.de's message of Mon, 4 Jan 1993 12:02:18 GMT
- Originator: terjeve@kolsaas.ifi.uio.no
-
- In article <1993Jan4.120218.17048@tom.rz.uni-passau.de>, ellmenre@kirk.fmi.uni-passau.de (Nils Ellmenreich) writes:
-
- > 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 :
- > |>
- > |> mount /dev/fd0 /floppy (where floppy is a created subdirectory)
- > |>
- > |> I get the message: "/dev/fd0 allready mounted or /floppy busy "
-
- > There are three possibilities:
-
- > - You didn't put a filesystem on the floppy. Do that by typing
- > mkfs /dev/fd0 1440 (for 3.5" HD)
-
- > - The directory /floppy is not empty.
-
- The mount-point doesn't have to be empty! - The contents will just be
- hidden until you do an umount.
-
- > - You have already mounted sth. on /floppy.
-
- > Hope that helps!
-
- I had exactly the same problem a while back, and I fixed it by
- removing the floppy-device and creating a new one. I'm not quite sure
- why it worked, but it did :-)
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