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Name: ben
Date: February 17, 2003 at 15:27:57 Pacific
OS: Red Hat 7.3
CPU/Ram: pentium 4/128
Comment:

when attempting to mount my floppy i get this error message:

"could no mount device
The reported error was:
mount: you must specify the filesystem type"

But the thing is that it had no problem mounting a different floppy of mine. Thanks for the advice.



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Name: 3Dave
Date: February 18, 2003 at 04:49:05 Pacific
Reply:

Try:
# mount -t auto /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

If it is a DOS formatted floppy, you could
do:
# mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

If it is a Linux formatted floppy, you could
do:
# mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy


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Response Number 2
Name: ben
Date: February 18, 2003 at 08:50:56 Pacific
Reply:

ok, thanks, i'll try that


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