Re: Mounting a floppy drive

[George Bonser <grep@shorelink.com>]

On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Malcolm Miles wrote:

> On Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:09:25 +0800, you wrote:
> 
> Didn't help. Same errors and then it came back with mount: you must specify the filesystem type.
> 
> >If it is a win95/98 floppy you *may* need to specify filesystem vfat rather
> >than msdos.  I'm not sure on this one.
> 
> Plain old DOS floppy.

Try 

mount /dev/fd0u1440 /mnt -t msdos

or 

mount /dev/fd0h1440 /mnt -t msdos

And see if that works.  Some fd0 drivers do not work for all floppy
drives. I don't know why.