Re: [PLUG] Stupid Newbie Question

[rscudder@annance.com]

You are showing that you tried to mount as a non-root user by the $ prompt.
By default you can not mount a floppy that way.  You will need to be root.

Even if you don't have an entry in fstab you can mount a disk if you supply
enough arguments to mount...

mount -t <file system> <device> <mount point>

For example, to mount a MS-DOS formatted floppy use:

mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy


Roger Scudder
Mail to: rscudder@annance.com




Andrew Shinn wrote:

Greetings Plug folks,

I'm fairly new to Linux (I grew up on Macs and then learned a little about
navigating a Unix shell at school then was converted to using Linux by my
brother).  I put together a box recently with a nice new factory empty
harddrive and installed debian slink off of a cd.  Before I bothered
configuring any files (other than pppconfig) I then used apt-get
(fantastic thing that is) to do a dist-upgrade to potato versions of all
the packages that were installed when I selected the dial-up profile in
the installation process.  Anyway, everything seemed to go well with the
installation (the first I've ever done of any OS) except that I couldn't
make a boot floppy (I just had an old disk, and I figured that it just
didn't want to use it -- crappy medium, floppies).  But today I decided to
test it and I gave the command

$mount /floppy

And it couldn't find it in  /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab...

So what stupid thing have I done here???  Where do I begin looking for
information on this?

Thanks in advance for your help.

--Drew





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