If the floppy is already formatted, you should be able to do just 'mount
/mnt/floppy'.





daniel wrote:
> 
> this can't be this difficult
> but for some reason, it is.
> 
> i put a floppy disc in
> it's a windows disc.
> i type the following as root:
> 
> mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floopy/ -t vfat
> 
> and it get this message:
> 
> mount: fs type vfat not supported by kernel
> 
> i get the same message with msdos, and ext
> 
> here's the line in fstab:
> /dev/fd0  /mnt/floppy  auto  users  0 0
> 
> what'd i do?
> 
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