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Why won't the floppy mount?
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Mar 15, 2026665 viewsConfidence Score0%
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The 1.44Meg floppy won't mount in my Nautilus file browser. When I try to mount it, it says there is no media in the drive. Yet, I can write to the floppy through the terminal using the 'cp' command. I can enter the command: and it mounts. I have also run a check and the disk itself is 100% clean. …
Error Output
mount -t ext2 /floppy
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I have apparently been able to get the floppy to mount: mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy I also had to add an entry to my /etc/fstab file. This seems to have fixed the mounting problems I was having. However, I would still like to be able to see…
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