topic problem in mounting diskette in Operating System - Linux

problem in mounting diskette

f. halili — Wed, 04 Oct 2000 16:05:14 GMT

I get this message when I tried to mount the diskette:

"mount: /mnt/fd0 has wrong major or minor number"

Any thoughts???

Re: problem in mounting diskette

tony j. podrasky — Wed, 04 Oct 2000 19:04:08 GMT

check the entry in the /dev directory. mine is

brw-rw---- 1 tonyp floppy 2, 0 May 5 1998 fd0

(the 2 and the 0 are the major and minor number).

Are you trying to mount an ext2-fs floppy or some other fs-type?

Re: problem in mounting diskette

Albert E. Whale, CISSP — Wed, 04 Oct 2000 19:47:01 GMT

What does your entry in /etc/fstab look like?

You should be able to see an entry for the /dev/fd0.

Is this the first time you've tried this? Is this from the ASCII Window mode, or are you accessing this from the X Windows display?

Re: problem in mounting diskette

f. halili — Thu, 05 Oct 2000 12:57:31 GMT

thanks......... i checked the permissions and the /etc/fstab and for some reason teh permissions was rw - - only....