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I'm having difficulties with mounting the NT filesystem
under Linux. /dev/fd0 was already mounted as an ext2
file system. Would this cause a problem? If not, what else
could be wrong?
This is crucial to the developement of an OS, so please
respond!

Collin

>On 2001-02-12 17:50:09, Collin wrote:
>I'm having difficulties with mounting the NT filesystem

>under Linux. /dev/fd0 was already mounted as an ext2
>file system. Would this cause a problem?

I strongly doubt it.


> If not, what else could be wrong?

What is the error message it gives you when you try to mount
the drive? What is the arguments that you are giving to
mount to use?

>On 2001-02-12 19:37:58, Anonymous wrote:
>>On 2001-02-12 17:50:09, Collin wrote:
>>I'm having difficulties with mounting the NT
filesystem
>
>>under Linux. /dev/fd0 was already mounted as an
ext2
>>file system. Would this cause a problem?
>
>I strongly doubt it.
>
>
>> If not, what else could be wrong?
>
>What is the error message it gives you when you try to
mount
>the drive? What is the arguments that you are giving
to
>mount to use?
>
>
The error message is somewhat like this:
mount: /dev/fd0 already mounted or busy
mount: ntfs not supported by kernel (not sure)
Collin

>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.

>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