Floppy Drive automounting ubuntu 7.04??

OSIDE [yaja at cox.net]

Fri, 2 Nov 2007 15:58:40 -0700

I have ubuntu 7.04 on a single user computer. New to ubuntu linux 0S & using the command line, trying to learn it. Need information on how to auto mount the platform device (floppy0) and the PC floppy drive. When I right click on floppy drive & click on mount, I get the error message, mount:/dev/fd0 is not a valid block device.

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Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]

Fri, 2 Nov 2007 21:49:16 -0400

On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 03:58:40PM -0700, O'SIDE wrote:

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>    I have ubuntu 7.04 on a single user computer. New to ubuntu linux 0S &
>    using the command line, trying to learn it. Need information on how to
>    auto mount the platform device (floppy0) and the PC floppy drive.  When I
>    right click on floppy drive & click on mount, I get the error message,
>    mount:/dev/fd0 is not a valid block device.

You may have a bad or unformatted floppy; that message often indicates one. If you believe that it's neither, try inserting it into the drive, then (without trying to mount it) check to see what it looks like to the system:

sudo file -s /dev/fd0

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