[Liverpool] Mounting floppy in Ubuntu

[Phil]

On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 10:23 -0500, LALAYNG at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 22/01/2006 00:39:55 GMT Standard Time,
> david at planetwatson.co.uk writes:
>         Ubuntu makes use of sudo, the first user create (during the
>         install) is able 
>         to run any command.  Simply add sudo to the front of the
>         command, such as:
>         
>         sudo mount -t fat /dev/fd0 floppy
>         
>         when it requests a password, enter your password.
> 
> I tried this and it returns a lot of text which seems to be from the
> User's Manual (which I understand about 5%).  The floppy does not seem
> to be mounted.  I will reboot from cold and see if any parameters are
> reset.
>  
> Thanks
>  
> Anthony (retired teacher of Physics, St. Edwards College, Sandfield
> Park)
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You may want to change the command slightly to:

sudo mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /floppy

Assuming a mount point of /floppy exists and does not have a filesystem
mounted to it.

Easily found out with 

>$ mount

If you're still get errors try sending the first 10 or so lines
initially in a reply email so we can see what you are seeing.

Regards

Phil
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