Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!pacbell!att-ih!chinet!ignatz
From: ignatz@chinet.UUCP (Dave Ihnat)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: mounting floppy volume
Message-ID: <3819@chinet.UUCP>
Date: 19 Mar 88 20:53:15 GMT
References: <3443@ece-csc.UUCP> <196@anumb.UUCP> <64@marque.mu.edu> <517@lakesys.UUCP>
Reply-To: ignatz@chinet.UUCP (Dave Ihnat)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
Lines: 15
Summary: Make sure you do 'mkfs' first

In article <517@lakesys.UUCP> tom@lakesys.UUCP (Tom Baas) writes:
>I have been following this article closely as I have not been able to
>mount a floppy device.  Under root I:
>/mount /dev/fp021 /mnt
>
>I get:
>mount: No such device or address

You may have a formatted diskette, but you don't have a Unix filesystem on it.
If you format the diskette via the 'ua' menu, this will be done for you; else
issue 'mkfs /dev/rfp021' for a 10-sector formatted diskette, or
'mkfs /dev/rfp021 632:100' for an 8-sector diskette. (These are the default
values from /usr/bin/Fformat.sh and /usr/bin/Fformat10.sh for 3.51)

Of course, you may play with the inode values for 'mkfs' as feels good to
you...