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    fd0 not a valid block device!!

    Hi.

    I've just recently installed v3.4 Knoppix onto one of my HD partitions on my Dell Latitude D600 laptop and manage to successfully boot into it via a floppy boot disk. The problem is that when Knoppix is loaded(via the floppy) when i click on the floppy icon i get the error message 'mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device'!! Any ideas? My disk drive is removeable..??
    I created my boot disk by running Knoppix from the CD on a machine with a normal floppy disk drive. I then edited the boot config on the disk to point to my hd partition hda5 as it was referencing fd0... Could that have something to do with it?

    Cheers.

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    check your /etc/fstab is the line for dev fd0 is something like this :
    /dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,users,noauto,showexec,umask=022 0 0

    focus on vfat.

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