Re: [TCLUG:2592] Mounting filesystems

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Subject: Re: [TCLUG:2592] Mounting filesystems
From: "Hans D. Umhoefer" <spudling@acm.cs.umn.edu>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 22:29:36 -0600
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.981207220608.20050A-100000@newton.pconline.com>; from Christopher Palmer on Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 10:09:51PM -0600
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Christopher Palmer wrote:
> > I wonder if it was because I was trying to read my boot floppy.
> 
> Yes that is why -- boot floppies have boot information on the superblock,
> i.e., 'bad' information for the file system type you specified. Use a DOS
> disk, or make a new ext2 floppy yourself. (Read the man pages for
> 'fdformat' and 'mkfs' for info on how to do that.)

I've gotten the boot floppies to mount. Not sure of the file system type
though. If you specify mount /dev/fd0 /mnt it won't ask for a fs type. 
It'll just guess. 

Hans 

-- 
Hans D Umhoefer (spudling@acm.cs.umn.edu)

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