HOWTO fix floppy disk mounting issues

[tseliot]

Ha.. I was just trying to save a Oo doc, to floppy- since printer is on da blink.
I grabbed a disk, & figured to format- using dappers "floppy formatter", & noticed the choice of 'DOS' or 'EXT2'.
Choosing Linux, with a successful format, I went to save the file...
which gave me a quick "unknown file format".
Again with mounting: mount: unknown filesystem type ''.
Even trying to use the 'DOS', gave error & I figure since I used 'EXT3',
I'm SOL with 'EXT2'.?!
Just venting...asta!

Make the following line look like the line I put in red:

/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto, rw,user,auto 0 0

/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0

NOTE: don't put a "," after "auto"

[stanz]

Make the following line look like the line I put in red:

/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto, rw,user,auto 0 0

/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0

NOTE: don't put a "," after "auto"

Done Deal...Thanks again tseliot !
It all was tabbed in file, this must have compressed with copy/paste?

[heislord5]

I'm having the same problem.

/etc/fstab:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/sda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hda1 /windows vfat iocharset=utf8,umask=000 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0

error message:

mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified.

I am in the group. I have pmount 0.9.11-1ubuntu1 installed.

help.

[Blur-king]

http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/mountlinux.html

did you " sudo mount -a " after changing your fstab.

then give it the proper permissions.

sudo chown -R username:username /media/floppy0
sudo chmod -R 755 /media/floppy0


I modify the instructions from the link and it work for me somehow.Please put in your username in the sudo above. Hope it works for you.