[vox-tech] Floppy Drive Won't Mount

Peter Jay Salzman vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:06:13 -0700


begin Peter Jay Salzman <p@dirac.org> 
> hi david,
 
bleah.  my bad.
 
> is "id0" a typo?   did it say "fd0"?   if it's not a typo, make sure
> your /etc/fstab has an entry which looks like
> 
> /dev/fd0        /floppy     auto     defaults,user,noauto,exec    0      0
 
for mandrake, that should be:


/dev/fd0    /mnt/floppy     auto     defaults,user,noauto,exec    0      0
            ^^^^^^^^^^^
             different

it also *may* matter whether mandrake is using devfsd or not.  make sure
that /dev/fd0 exists.

pete