Re: [Sheflug] Re: mounting a floppy

[Peter Duffy <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Can you mount the floppy with "mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy"? (obviously,
first check that the directory /mnt/floppy exists: create it if not.)

If not, is it formatted? (To format it, use "fdformat /dev/fd0H1440")

One thing I've noticed about the command you're using: "mount /floppy"
would only work if you had a directory "floppy" in the root directory,
and this was defined in /etc/fstab. The ad hoc mount points are normally
all stored in the /mnt directory (so that the "normal" command to mount
a floppy is "mount /mnt/floppy".)

As someone's previously said, "man -k" searches for a topic rather than
a specific man page. However, it's probably worth adding that for this
to work, the "whatis" database needs to have been built (otherwise it
will just return: "nothing appropriate", whatever you type in.) To
create the "whatis" database, just run the command "makewhatis" (and
then go and get a cup of coffee: it takes quite a while.)


On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 16:55, Douglas G Mckendrick wrote:
> I'm still unable to mount my floppy with
> 
> mount /floppy
> 
> Also I've been looking at the man pages........Is there a way to
> specifically search for a topic?


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