[Leaplist] Floppy problem in Lenny - Debian

[Aaron Morrison]

On 11 Jul 2007, at 11:51, Whit Hansell wrote:

> Thanks again Richard.
>
>
> Richard F. Ostrow Jr. wrote:
>> On Tue, July 10, 2007 4:39 pm, Whit Hansell wrote:
>>
>>> Richard,
>>> Thanks for replying.  I appreciate it.
>>>
>>> brightsun:/# dmesg | grep fd
>>> mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
>>> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
>>>
>>
>> Ok, that's clear proof that the kernel did load a floppy
>>

[snip]


> brightsun:/# mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0
> mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
>
> Again, rats!


Try mounting with /dev/fd0u1440 which might help persuade mount that  
the device is seeing a 1.44MB floppy.

Worth a try...

--am