>On 2001-02-18 10:57:48, Chase wrote:
>>On 2001-02-13 12:14:14, Anonymous wrote:
>> The error message is somewhat like this:
>> mount: /dev/fd0 already mounted or busy
>> mount: ntfs not supported by kernel (not sure)
>> Collin
>
>Are you unmounting any old disks before swapping?
>Floppies are normally Fat12 under all M$ OS's.
>Try mounting fd0 as a MSDOS volume.
>
>The message about ntfs not being supported by the kernel
>may be because you're using a kernel new enough to support
>ntfs but it must be recompiled too make it work.
>For older kernels you can download a read-only ntfs
>driver.
OK, thanks. I think I found an alternate way of reading
data from floppies. Your advice worked. I tried to mount
the floppy under the "vfat" type, after reading your
post on mounting the floppy. It worked. Once more, thanks
for your advice.
Collin
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