On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 16:27:48 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 16:09:52 -0500 (EST), Camaleón wrote: >> On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:07:20 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: >>> Well, I'm not exactly a newbie. I've been using Linux for more than >>> 10 years. But I must be doing something wrong. I can't seem to get a >>> floppy disk to mount. >>> ... >> >> Weird :-? >> >> I would try with the simplest command: >> >> mount /dev/fd0 /mnt >> >> If you get no error, run "mount" to ensure your floppy has been >> mounted. Also, check for "dmesg" output. > > No dice. I tried your suggested command, except that I changed /dev/fd0 > to /dev/fd1, since I need the 5.25-inch drive, not the 3.5-inch drive, > but other than that it was just as you suggested. No mount, no error > message. The only output from dmesg is the original warning message: > > FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, > filesystem will be case sensitive! > > which also comes out on the terminal, since I am issuing the command > from an active Linux virtual console, not a terminal emulation window in > X.
Strange, indeed. I would try to load the floppies in another computer, maybe they become damaged somehow :-? Also, to discard any problem with squeeze, you can test it under a livecd (by instance, in lenny, I don't get that "warning" about utf-8 charset when accessing my floppy disks). Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.12.06.11.34...@gmail.com
