floppy

[Patrick Dupre]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Mark LaPierre wrote:

> On 03/28/2012 11:14 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> man I make a mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy -t msdos
>> every thing seems OK (no complain), but it is just not mounted:
>> df does not show it and I can redo the command again and again!
>>
>> mformat A: works fine!
>>
>> Thank for your help.
>>
>>
>>
>
> Is this floppy formatted with a DOS FAT partition?  You can't mount it 
> if there's no file system.
Yes it is a msdos formatted flopyy.
Thus, I cannot mount it?

thank.

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