Mount behaving oddly under sarge

[Matthew Roberts <majroberts@gmail.com>]

Hi, I don't know if this a sarge (or Debian) specific issue. If not
please accept my apologies for posting it here.

After a reboot, I can't mount a floppy as a normal user:

$mount /media/floppy
mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified

Even though I have this line in /etc/fstab:

/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0

However, I can become root using

$su

and do

#mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /media/floppy

which works fine.

After that the original command (as a normal user) works fine:

$mount /media/floppy

But the next reboot sets it all off again.

I'd really like to know what's going on here.