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- From: dzubin@skorpio.usask.ca (Thomas Dzubin)
- Subject: Re: Help: fail to mount /dev/fd1
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.180233.29078@access.usask.ca>
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- References: <1992Aug20.163351.14910@nas.nasa.gov>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 18:02:33 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug20.163351.14910@nas.nasa.gov> chiu@wk211.nas.nasa.gov (Ing-Tsau Chiu) writes:
- >I booted Linux from diskettes (Linux 0.97 boot diskette and root
- >system) and was able to ran a few unix command. Everything seemed
- >fine except that when trying to mount /dev/fd1 (a 3.5in 1.44meg drive)
- >using "mount /dev/fd1 /mnt", I got the following message.
- >
- > magic match failed
- > /dev/fd1 already mounted or /mnt busy
- >
- >Can anybody tell me what's going on? Thanks.
- >--
- >--
- >Ing-Tsau Chiu chiu@nas.nasa.gov
-
- Just a wild stab in the dark, but this usually happens to me when I've
- accidentally put in a floppy which doesn't have a filesystem on it.
- (done with the 'mkfs' command)
- I'm still living with my MSDOS habits which make me assume that a floppy
- is ready immediately after formatting. In Un*x, this is not true, you
- have to mkfs before you can use it.
- 1) fdformat /dev/fd1
- 2) mkfs /dev/fd1 1440
- 3) mount /dev/fd1 /mnt
-
- I don't know why, but occasionnaly I (accidentally, again) try and
- mount my boot floppy...this also gives the error message.
- This is just plain stupidity on my part since the boot floppy is not
- meant to be mounted.
-
- If you *HAVE* done the three steps detailed above, you might also want
- to try substituting /dev/fd1H1440 instead of /dev/fd1
- I had to do this once or twice for some reason...the auto-detecting stuff
- wasn't working.
-
- I hope I'm not assuming the wrong things here...
- Thomas Dzubin
- tdzubin@cue.bc.ca
-
-