[ale] Problem mounting floppy drive with RedHat 5.2

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	Try mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy.  This will mount the floppy drive
to /mnt/floppy directory. But before mounting the floppy drive, be sure
that the floppy diskette is inserted to your floppy drive.


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On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Gary Maltzen wrote:

> What is the output of `ls -l /dev/fd0` ?
> It should be something like this:
> 
> brw-rw-r--   1 root     floppy     2,   0 May  5  1998 /dev/fd0
> 
> What format is the floppy? MS-DOS? minix? Mac?
> 
> What is the output of `grep mnt.floppy /etc/fstab` ?
> It should be something like this:
> 
> /dev/fd0   /mnt/floppy   ext2   noauto   0 0
> 
> 
>  -----Original Message-----
> Hello, everyone.  I just installed RedHat Linux 5.2 and am having some
> trouble mounting the floppy drive.
> 
> When I type:
> 	mount /mnt/floppy
> 
> I get the following error:
> 	end request:  I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0
> 	mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
> 
>