darxus on Sat, 27 May 2000 11:06:40 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [PLUG] Stupid Newbie Question


On Fri, 26 May 2000, Andrew Shinn wrote:

> Thanks for the help, Roger and Darxus!!!
> 
> On Fri, 26 May 2000 rscudder@annance.com wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 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.  
> 
> Oops, my fault.  I WAS root when I tried to mount the device, but I typed
> a "$" prompt in my email.  Anyway I edited my /etc/fstab and I am now
> told:
> 
> mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
> 
> Hmmm... does this mean that there could be something physically wrong with
> the floppy drive, or the connection to the motherboard?
> 
> Well, I'll do some more tinkering...

I haven't done this recently, and I don't feel like digging out a floppy
to check..

Do you have a floppy in the drive ?
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