Re: mounting and accessing floppy

[Alexis Huxley <ahuxley@gmx.net>]

> and whenever I try to mount floppy
> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
>
> I get a mess a message:
> mount: wrong fs type, bad options, bad superblock on /dev/fd0

It says 'bad superblock', which means it didn't recognise it as a
DOS floppy. So what *is* on the floppy then? How did you make it?

my guess is that it's either not formatted, or formatted without a
filesystem, or formatted and with a non-msdos filesystem.

You should be running something like:

	format /dev/fd0		(formats but does not put FS)

	mkfs -t msdos /dev/fd0	(puts an empty msdos FS on formatted disk)

	mount ...		(as you said above)

	cp, mv, rm, etc ...

	umount /dev/fd0

Alexis