> I am a new user of Debian 1.3.1 (kernel 2.0.29). I am having trouble
> mounting my floppy drive in Linux. I have installed linux on my machine
> without any floppies and am currently booting it via loadlin. I believe I
> need to use the floppy boot disk if i ever want to upgrade my kernel.
You are wrong, although installing a newly created kernel on floppy in order
to be able to test it first is recomended.
> Linux does detect my floppy /dev/fd0 at startup but I cannot mount it.
> When i issue the mount command with my msdos formatted floppy in the drive,
> the drive light is lit but nothing happens. below is the mount command and
> an error that is printed once i eject the floppy.
>
> # mount /dev/fd0 /mnt -t msdos
> end_request: i/o error, dev 02:00, sector 0
> mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
>
> Any assistance is very helpful - i think my system is usless without the
> floppy boot disk.
I am not sure, but you could try
mount /dev/fd0h1440 /mnt -t msdos
(assuming that the drive is a standard 3.5").
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