floppy mount and msdos

[Debian User <debian-user@zerocrossings.com>]

i am interested in moving a tar ball from a windows 2000 machine 
to my non-networked linux machine ... kernel 2.2.20. the floppy is 
listed in fstab as:

/dev/fd0    /floppy   auto    user,noauto    0    0

at the shell prompt, mount displays:

/dev/fd0 on /floppy type msdos (rw)

looks good, right?

i copied the g-zipped tarball onto the floppy at the windows machine.
i list the contents at the shell prompt when i put the floppy into 
the linux machine and a whole lot of attempts to access beyond the 
end of the device errors are reported.

is something missing from the kernel to support the windows ftype?

harland