In article <1992Aug20.163351.14910@nas.nasa.gov>, chiu@wk211.nas.nasa.gov (Ing-Tsau Chiu) writes:
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> I booted Linux from diskettes (Linux 0.97 boot diskette and root
> system) and was able to ran a few unix command.  Everything seemed
> fine except that when trying to mount /dev/fd1 (a 3.5in 1.44meg drive)
> using "mount /dev/fd1 /mnt", I got the following message.
> 
>   magic match failed
>   /dev/fd1 already mounted or /mnt busy
> 
> Can anybody tell me what's going on?  Thanks.
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> Ing-Tsau Chiu                       chiu@nas.nasa.gov

What you told Linux to do was mount a linux file system on drive fd1.  
the disk isn't a linux disk.
The solution is to either:
   1.  mkfs /dev/fd1 1440  (make the disk a linux file system)
   2.  mount -t msdos /dev/fd1 /mnt  (mount an ms dos disk on /mnt)
(the disk in fd1 must be formated w/dos format or linux fdformat)
before any of the above allpies.
            

 siss fil