mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device

[Zerosleep]

What is this? "/dev/fd0" is in my fstab, so I don't see why it's not coming up. I'm running slack10. Any ideas?

[clonek]

/dev/fd0 is your floppy drive. Most likely your system is trying to mount the floppy drive and there is no disk in the drive. Its safe to delete that line if you dont want to mount your floppy drive on boot.

[Zerosleep]

Um, I do want to mount it on boot. It is supposed to be mounted at /mnt/floppy. But aparently it isn't. When I go to do a fdformat or a mkfs or even a mount, I get errors like the one in the topic title.

[cpugeniusmv]

if you want it to mount on boot, there has to be a disk in the drive.

do you really want it to mount on boot? if so, take out the noauto option from its line in fstab.

[Zerosleep]

The thing is, I just want it to mount period. That's all I want it to do. But I keep getting that error message.

[Knight']

use supermount then.

[Zerosleep]

That will solve my problem?

/dev/fd0         /mnt/floppy      iso9660     noauto,owner,ro,kenji  0   0

I put supermount right after noauto?

[markwolfe Veteran]

Is this something that maybe a set of tools such as mtools will solve for you?

Using mtools doesn't require you to issue a mount prior to floppy access.

[kjordan2001]

Somehow I doubt iso9660 is the right type for the floppy you're trying to mount. That's most likely the problem.

[Zerosleep]

Any idea on how I can find out what the right type would be?

[Knight']

  Zerosleep said:

That will solve my problem?

/dev/fd0         /mnt/floppy      iso9660     noauto,owner,ro,kenji  0   0

I put supermount right after noauto?

LOL! That's so wrong :| I suggest you read about mount and google supermount.

[kjordan2001]

  Zerosleep said:

Any idea on how I can find out what the right type would be?

Most likely it's going to be vfat (if you did something with it in Windows). Otherwise, whatever you formatted it as. Or try auto for the filesystem.

[Knight']

none                    /mnt/floppy     supermount      fs=auto,dev=/dev/fd0,--,user,rw                 0 0

[Knight']

And make sure you compile supermount into your Kernel.

[Zerosleep]

Well, I'd like to put auto, but it doesn't matter right now because i can't even do a mkfs, i still get a "bas blocks count" problem.

[Knight']

have you compiled supermount into ur kernel?

[kjordan2001]

  Zerosleep said:

Well, I'd like to put auto, but it doesn't matter right now because i can't even do a mkfs, i still get a "bas blocks count" problem.

Bad floppy? Bad drive?

[cpugeniusmv]

my floppy line in fstab, if that helps.

/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy     auto            noauto,user             0 0

[markwolfe Veteran]

  Zerosleep said:

Well, I'd like to put auto, but it doesn't matter right now because i can't even do a mkfs, i still get a "bas blocks count" problem.

Did you try to see if mtools worked?

Also, if you are unsure if the physical drive may be bad - or if it is the configuration, try boting with Knoppix (which I know will work with the floppy) to make sure the drive does work.