Floppy Formatter Not Working

**bongski55** · 07-26-2003, 05:30 AM

Tried to use floppy formatter but keep on getting this error: ' /dev/fd11440 read only file system' .What is happening here?

First of all the floppy is in /dev/fd0 not fd1. Also the floppy in my drive is not read -only. Tested it in win98 format ok.

Thanks!

**fingers99** · 07-30-2003, 11:51 PM

I've never come across this one, but it points to errors in your /etc/fstab. The line for my floppy reads:

/dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022 0 0

Note that the floppy (I take it you're using Kfloppy?) must not be mounted.

**bongski55** · 07-31-2003, 09:02 AM

I can do fdformat /dev/fd0 with no problems. Just want to know how to correct this error in Kfloppy.

**fingers99** · 07-31-2003, 01:20 PM

OK, so what does the line for the floppy in your /etc/fstab say? Can you post it?

My guess is that it's a simple matter of doing

sudo gvim (or kate, or whatever editor you're happy with) /etc/fstab and correcting the line. You'll probably (as root) need to do mount -a as well.

BTW, are we talking about a Hard Drive install here?